winder
See also: Winder
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English wynder; equivalent to wind + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪndɚ/
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- Rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Noun edit
winder (plural winders)
- A winding plant.
- 1984, J. G. Ohler, K. H. Reichelderfer, Gerald A. Carlson, Economic Guidelines for Crop Pest Control, volumes 57-60, page 165:
- 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).
- A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth
- A spool around which something is wound
- A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
- Synonym: stem
- One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
winder (plural winders)
- (slang) A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- "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.
Etymology 3 edit
Related to winnow.
Verb edit
winder (third-person singular simple present winders, present participle windering, simple past and past participle windered)
- To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
winder (plural winders)
- Pronunciation spelling of window.
- 1868, Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False:
- 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 piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters […]