Meaning of winding engine | Babel Free

Definitions

A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.

Examples

“Now its only duty is to let down the coal required by the pumping plant at the bottom and to draw up the empties, which it does by means of a wire rope attached to a large drum driven by the original winding engine, but originally the engine pulled up the incline the coal from the pit at the bottom, [...].”

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