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winder
/ˈwaɪndɚ/
noun 8name 3verb 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
considered
WINDER + NOUN
piece
Definitions
noun
1
A winding plant.
Two types of leguminous crops combine most of the above mentioned favourable characteristics, the vines (creepers or winders, fig. 23) and the bushes (fig. 22).
2
An engine that raises and lowers the cages in a mine.
3
The person who operates such an engine.
4
A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.
5
A spool around which something is wound.
noun
1
A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
"Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house again," he said.
verb
1
To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
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Synonyms
noun — mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Two types of leguminous crops combine most of the above mentioned favourable characteristics, the vines (creepers or winders, fig. 23) and the bushes (fig. 22).
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"Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house
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That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which pi
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Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on
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