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winding sheet
(encz) | winding sheet, |
Winding sheet
(gcide) | Winding \Wind"ing\, n.
1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as,
the windings of a road or stream.
[1913 Webster]
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
[1913 Webster]
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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Winding sheet
(gcide) | Winding \Wind"ing\, n.
1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as,
the windings of a road or stream.
[1913 Webster]
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
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