Meaning of Winding | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Danish.
2. gerund of wind
   attributive, countable, uncountable
3. The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
   attributive, countable, uncountable
4. The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
   countable, uncountable
5. The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
   countable, uncountable
6. A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
   countable, especially, in-plural, uncountable
7. A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
   countable, especially, in-plural, uncountable
8. Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
   countable, uncountable
9. Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
   countable, uncountable
10. Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
    countable, figuratively, in-plural, uncountable
11. The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
    British, countable, uncountable
12. A variation in a tune.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
13. Something wound around another thing.
    countable, uncountable
14. A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
    countable, uncountable
15. Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
    countable, uncountable
16. A decorative object, design, or other thing with curves or twists.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. Synonym of withe or withy (“a flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding”); also, all the withies used to make or repair a wall, or the process of using withies in this manner.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“Novv their opinions of the end of the vvorld, of Paradiſe, and of hell; exceede the vanity of dreames, and all old vviues fables. They ſay, that at the vvinding of a horne not only all fleſh ſhall die, but the Angels themſelues: & that the earth vvith earthquakes ſhall be kneaded together like a lumpe of dough, for forty daies ſo continuing.”

“[W]e savv a Fox run by the Foot of our Mount into an adjacent Thicket. A fevv Minutes after, vve heard a confuſed Noiſe of the opening of Hounds, the vvinding of Horns, and the roaring of Country Squires.”

“Not a man or woman in the town but has heard stories of apparitions in the forest, or about the old castle. Sometimes it is a pack of hounds that sweep along, and the whoops and hollos of the huntsman, and the winding of horns and the galloping of horse, […]”

“Then there was […] a vast deal of screwing and tightening, and winding and tuning, during which Mrs. Briggs expatiated to those near her on the immense difficulty of playing a guitar, and hinted at the wondrous proficiency of her daughters in that mystic art.”

“[T]here vvill be hurly burly, like as ye ſee in a man vvhen he dieth; vvhat deformity appeareth, hovv he ſtretcheth out all his members, vvhat a vvinding is there, ſo that all his body cometh out of frame?”

“Eugene Forsarde, the reviewer in question, follows Currer Bell [Brontë's pseudonym] through every winding, discerns every point, discriminates every shade, proves himself master of the subject, and lord of the aim.”

“Berenice ſtandeth upon the utmoſt vvinding and nouke of Syrtis, called ſometime the cittie of the above-named Heſperides, according to the vvandering tales of Greece.”

“The Labyrinth] A building ſo entangled in vvindings and cyrcles, that it deceiueth all that come in it.”

“This idol, like a worm, that less or more / Contracts or strains her, did itself convey, / Beyond the wards or windings of the key, / Into the chamber, and, above her head / Her seat assuming, thus she comforted / Distress'd Penelope: […]”

“[T]heſe ["mixt newel'd stairs"], becauſe they ſometimes vvind, and ſometimes fly off from that vvinding take therefore the more room up in the Stair-Caſe.”

“O, Maskvvell, in vain I do diſguiſe me from thee, thou knovv'ſt me, knovv'ſt the very inmoſt VVindings and Receſſes of my Soul.”

“Firſt, I charged them to make Land-marks, Bearings, and Beacons, as vve might call them, […] at the Reaches and VVindings of the Rivers or Brooks, Falls of VVater, and every thing remarkable; […]”

“I thence vvithdrevv, and follovved long / The vvindings of the ſtream.”

“[A] loud shriek / That shook along the windings of the cave / Scattered the youth's reply.”

“The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.”

“[M]y mother’s pale arms emerged from the windings of her sheets and flailed in the air; her mouth chattered like a motor.”

“If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea; but what could you do there? Gather shells, loll on the oily stones.”

“Is there a Tongue, like Delia’s o’er her cup, / That runs for Ages vvithout vvinding-up?”

“For that vvhich he hath novv attained vvith the begging of ſome ſmall peeces of ſiluer, a temporall happins, & preſent hearts eaſe, I cannot compaſſe vvith all my carefull vvindings, & running in & out.”

“Its [facetiousness's] vvays are unaccountable and inexplicable, being anſvverable to the numberleſs rovings of fancy, and vvindings of language.”

“It cannot be supposed that the confusion of the two youthful lovers escaped the observation of the wily lawyer, accustomed, by habit and profession, to trace human nature through all her windings.”

“The Gazette which announced that [Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of] Sunderland had been appointed Chamberlain of the Royal Household, sworn of the Privy Council, and named one of the Lords Justices who were to administer the government during the summer, had caused great uneasiness among plain man who remembered all the windings and doublings of his long career.”

“Among the windings of the violins / And the ariettes / Of cracked cornets / Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins / Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own, / Capricious monotone / That is at least one definite "false note."”

“For knovv by lot from Jove I am the povvr / Of this fair VVood, and live in Oak'n bovvr, / To nurſe the Saplings tall, and curl the grove / VVith ringlets quaint, and vvanton vvindings vvove.”

“As for the manner of making vvalls, by davvbing vvindings and hurdles vvith mud and clay, also of rearing them othervvhiles vvith unbaked bricke; vvho is ſo ignorant that he knovveth it not?”

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