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Winder   /wˈɪndər/  /wˈaɪndər/   Listen
Winder

noun
1.
A worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism).
2.
Mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock).  Synonym: key.
3.
Mechanical device around which something can be wound.



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"Winder" Quotes from Famous Books



... massa Jack, dat's what I kin. I'll point it out from dish yeah winder, but I ain't g'wine dar ag'in; no, sah, ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood

... done, the cane legs gliding like rockers over the well-polished deck, and the lad returned to his place to turn the winder where he had stood the line to dry. This process was going on rapidly, and he stopped bending over the apparatus to examine the hook and stout snood, to see that it had not been frayed by the fish's teeth. This done, he turned to speak to Fitz again, ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn

... "Oh, sort of a winder. Well, it's all right, Cora. I hope we can fix it to go. When do we start, if a fellow might make bold to ask? You see, my car is in the shop. Walter has loaned his to some one up the State. But a little thing like that doesn't matter when the girls ...
— The Motor Girls Through New England - or, Held by the Gypsies • Margaret Penrose

... all his train o' clouds, is past; The zun do rise while vo'k do sleep, To teaeke a higher daily zweep, Wi' cloudless feaece a-flingen down His sparklen light upon the groun'. The air's a-streamen soft,—come drow The winder open; let it blow In drough the house, where vire, an' door A-shut, kept out the cwold avore. Come, let the vew dull embers die, An' come below the open sky; An' wear your best, vor fear the groun' In colors gaey mid sheaeme your gown: An' goo an' rig wi' me a mile Or two up over ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... say something!" he cried wildly; "unless you want me to jump out of the winder! What ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey


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