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 Wind·ing, n.
 1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
 To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
 With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.   --Milton.
 2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as Elec., a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.
 Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
 Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.
 Winding tackle Naut., a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.  --Totten.
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