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Pronunciation : Wind"ing
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From Wind to blow.] (Naut.)
Definition : Defn: A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Wind"ing
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [From Wind to twist.]
Definition : Defn: Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. Keble.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Wind"ing
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: 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.

Defn: A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913