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▪ I. winding, vbl. n.1|ˈwaɪndɪŋ|
[f. wind v.1 + -ing1.
OE. had windung only in concr. sense, ‘plecta’ = Du. winding coil, convolution, OHG., early MHG. winting, winding ‘fascia’, ‘fasciola’, stocking, ON. vindingr hose.]
I. The action of wind v.1, or the resulting condition. (See also 10.)
1. a. Motion in a curve; turning this way and that in one's course; sinuous progress or movement; † formerly also, revolution, rotation; undulating motion.
In first quot. of doubtful meaning; ? = tropic n. 1 a.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. iii. (Skeat) l. 39 To travayle and see the wynding of the erthe in that tyme of winter. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. iii. (Add. MS. 27944), A ȝere is þe fulle cours and passinge and windinge aboute of þe sonne. 1530Palsgr. 289/1 Wyndyng, uolubilité. 1552Latimer Serm., Luke xxi. (1562) 133 How he stretcheth out all his membres, what a winding is there, so that all his body commeth out of frame! 1573Baret Alv. W 233 The windinges of serpentes. 1620Melton Astrolog. 70 Birds, and Fowles, with their Motions, Chatterings, Croakings, Winding. 1623J. Taylor (Water P.) New Discov. C 2 b, For there hath he..vsed such a deale of intricate Setting, Grafting, Planting..turning, winding, and returning circular [etc.]. 1679Moxon Mech. Exerc. ix. 151 These [stairs], because they sometimes wind, and sometimes fly off from that winding, take therefore the more room up in the Stair-Case. 1709T. Robinson Vind. Mos. Syst. 101 These [Plants]..in their Windings, always follow the Motion of the Sun. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 27 That graceful winding of person. 1770W. Gilpin Wye (1782) 32 The winding of the river. 1834Newman Par. Serm. I. xviii. 274 They wish to arrive at the heights of Mount Zion without winding round its base. 1844Kinglake Eothen xii, With very little of devious winding, it [sc. Jordan] carries the shining waters of Galilee..into the solitudes of the Dead Sea. 1869Sir F. Fitzwygram Horses & Stables §931 Winding of the fore-foot is also very objectionable.
b. Naut. (see wind v.1 8, 19 b, 24 g).
c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685), Winding of a Ship. 1639(Oct. 18) Admir. Crt. Exam. 55 (P.R.O.) It being upon wyndeinge upp of the tide. [Cf. quot. 1691 s.v. wind v.1 22 g.]
2. fig.
a. Turning this way and that in thought or conduct; nearly always pl. devious or intricate motions, tortuous or crooked ways or dealings.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. 404 Hearts ease, I cannot compasse with all my carefull windings, & running in & out. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. v. (1642) 395 The boughts and windings of a deceitfull heart. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 19 All this winding to me, in plainness, seems an aiming at no House. a1677Barrow Serm. Eph. v. 4 Wks. 1687 I. 195 The numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xx, The subtle lawyer, accustomed..to trace human nature through all her windings. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 114 To trace all the windings of the negotiation would be tedious. 1870Disraeli Lothair l, We are friends and can speak without windings.
†b. Mus. A melodic alternation or variation.
1667C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Mus. 85 These little windings and bindings with Discords and Imperfect Concords after them, do very much delight the Ear. 1667Playford Skill Mus. i. 41 Those long windings and turnings of the Voyce are ill used. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. iv. 75 Which he performs with various turnings and windings of the Voice. 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock & Other Observations 18 Among the windings of the violins And the ariettes Of cracked cornets.
3. Carpentry, etc. Condition of being twisted; chiefly in phr. out of winding = out of wind (wind n.2 3); in winding, twisted.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 46 To make the side Lines and middle Lines of the Decks out of winding one with another. 1721J. Perry Daggenham Breach 60 Such Piles..could be brought by a straight Line..to meet in the middle of the Breach, and be out of winding,..in the same continued Line as first drove down. 1842Gwilt Archit. §1911 A stone is taken out of winding principally with points. 1880J. Lomas Alkali Trade 328 The tiles themselves must be of good quality—Dutch preferred—and of faultless ‘winding’.
4. a. The action of twining a flexible object round another or itself, esp. the coiling or twining of thread, silk, etc.; wrapping in a shroud (now dial.).
With quot. c 1386 cf. sense 8.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋343 The cost of..barrynge, owndynge,..wyndynge or bendynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 530 (Winch. MS.) Wyn[d]yng, or twynynge of threde, tortura,..uel torsura. 1463–4Rolls of Parlt. V. 503/2 Grete disceit, in wyndyng, foldyng, and makyng of Flecez of Wolle. 1552Huloet, Wyndynge of sylke, or thread. 1579Aldeburgh Rec. in N. & Q. 12th Ser. VII. 328/2 To myles harrisons wiffe and Ales gillion for wyndinge of mother Hue..vid. 1619in Foster Engl. Factories India (1906) I. 116 Bengala silke..in cleare windinge. c1796Burns The Cardin' o't 6 The cardin' o't, the spinnin' o't; The warpin' o't, the winnin' o't. 1831–3Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 716/2 The winding requires the unwearied attention of children to mend the threads that break. 1834Dickens Sk. Boz, Steam Excurs., 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. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. i. 37 The process of ‘winding’ is that by which the weft is transferred from the bobbins to the shuttle. 1910S. P. Thompson Life Ld. Kelvin II. 754 The zigzag winding for alternators.
b. With advs. on, out, up; also attrib.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 421 Each spinner..fixes the end of the piece that is spun to a winding-up reel. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 301 Till the stretch and winding-on were once more completed. 1839― Dict. Arts, etc. 1110 A winding-on bobbin. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. ii. 63 The ‘winding-on room’ where the cloth is wound uniformly round a thick beam or roller preparatory to the printing. 1873Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 201/2 The spools for winding up and winding out should be of the same weight. 1883Yorksh. Textile Direct. 58 Patent Crabbing or Winding-on Machine. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxiii. 517 A system of managing guinea worm cases which bids fair to..obviate the serious risks of the old winding out system.
5. Hoisting or hauling by means of a winch, windlass, or the like. Also with up.
c1440Promp. Parv. 529 (Winch. MS.) Wyyndyng with wyndas, obvolucio. Ibid. 530 Wyndynge vp of thyngis þat bene heuy, euolucio. c1575Ship Lawis in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 620 Gif ane tun or pype be tint in the winding or heising, in fault of the cordis. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Winding, hoisting with a rope and drum. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Winding, the operation of raising by means of a steam-engine, with ropes and cages, the produce of the mine.
6. Usually with up, of a clock or other mechanism: see wind v.1 20 b, 24 e. Also fig.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) World runs on Wheels Wks. ii. 234/1 The new found Instrument that goes by winding vp like a Iacke. 1728Young Love Fame i. 282 Is there a tongue, like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding-up? 1737Gentl. Mag. Feb. 68/1 So that no Time is lost in winding. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. v. (ed. 3) 38 The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches. 1884St. James's Gaz. 28 Mar. 6/1 The unfortunate thing about spirit-drinking is..that the drinker requires more and more ‘winding-up’ as he goes on.
7. winding up: conclusion, finish (see wind v.1 24 d); now usually, the bringing to an end the activities of a business concern; also attrib.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 64 b, How vnfortunate..hath bene the successe and wyndyng vp of commotioners [orig. seditiosorum exitus]. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1596) 481 Crafty counseiles..be hard in the handeling, and wofull in the winding vp [orig. euentu tristia]. 1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs (1880) 1 In the wynding vp of your Letter written and directed to Doctour Turner. Ibid. 44 The winding vp of this worke, called the Supplement, &c. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 879 If they would but expect the winding up of things, and stay till the last Close. 1705R. Cromwell Let. in Engl. Hist. Rev. (1898) XIII. 123 The winding up of your bottom will be more pleasing. 1782in Mme. D'Arblay's Diary (1904) II. 97 My warm approbation of the whole work [‘Cecilia’] together:..the winding up beyond all compare, more happy, [etc.]. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iv. vi. ⁋15 She..detailed the progress of the plot to the winding up of the catastrophe. 1824Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 271 The Hague season is nearly over, and a ball on Thursday is almost the winding up. 1834De Quincey Autob. Sk. ix. Wks. 1853 I. 240 The year 1782 brought that war to its winding up. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Winding-up Act. 1875Economist 30 Jan. 131/2 The shareholders are asked to oppose the projected winding-up. 1895Times 19 Jan. 15/6 A winding-up order having recently been made against this company.
II. That which winds or is wound.
8. a. An object that winds or is wound round; a coil or coiled object; † a curved, circular, or twining pattern, ornament, piece of material, etc.
c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 505/24 Plecta, windonge. [Cf. 471/1 Plectas, ᵹewind.] 1356in Pipe Roll 32 Edw. III, m. 33/2 (P.R.O.), ij. Exeronges, xxiiij. Wyndynges, ij. naues, ij. lynces. 1382Wyclif 1 Kings vii. 29 Betwix the litil crownes and wyndyngis, liouns, and oxen. 1486Nottingham Rec. III. 244, iij. wyndynges of iren aboute a ledder. 1555in Feuillerat Revels Q. Mary (1914) 183 Wroughte with white partye payned barwyse wyndinge which was taken owte of the borders of hanginges. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 (1619) 151 Those who are alreadie clasped in the windings of this sinne. c1633Milton Arcades 47 To nurse the Saplings tall, and curl the grove With Ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. 1699T. Baker Refl. Learn. ix. 102 A Man must see the folds and windings of a knot before he can unty it. 1764J. Ferguson Lect. iii. 43 The winch..must turn the cylinder once round before the weight or resistance..can be moved from one spiral winding to another. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., In Suffolk the flannel, which is wound round a corpse, is called a winding.
b. Electr. An electric conductor that is wound round a magnetic material, esp. (a) a coil encircling part of the stator or rotor of an electric motor or generator, or an assembly of such coils connected to form one circuit; (b) one forming part of a transformer.
1888S. P. Thompson Dynamo-Electric Machinery (ed. 2) xii. 259 If the successive sections are to be connected up consecutively, then they must be wound..alternately with right-handed and left-handed windings. 1947R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits v. 141 In step-down transformers the capacitance may be regarded as existing mainly across the primary winding; in step-up transformers, across the secondary winding. 1962Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 894/1 The simplest type of winding is a field coil around a salient pole.., the coil comprising a number of turns (between one and several thousand) of wire or strip. 1979Nasar & Unnewehr Electromechanics & Electric Machines iii. 67 Transformer windings are constructed of solid or stranded copper or aluminum conductors.
9. A curved, sinuous, or meandering line, path, passage, or the like; esp. pl. meanderings, twists and turns.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 9 Þis matir, as laborintus, Dedalus hous, haþ many..wyndynges and wrynkelynges. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xiii. vi. (1495) C v b/1 Tygris..passith in to y⊇ redde see after many turnynges & wyndynges. 1552Huloet, Wyndynges and turnynges, amfractus. 1601Holland Pliny v. v. I. 94 Berenice standeth upon the utmost winding and nouke of Syrtis. 1615Chapman Odyss. iv. 1084 The wards, or windings of the key. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 50 A little skin in the lowest winding, or turning of the eare. a1700Evelyn Diary 9 June 1654, The Mount, to which we ascended by windings for neere halfe a mile. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 192 Fetching several compasses and windings. 1788Cowper Dog & Water-Lily 28, I..follow'd long The windings of the stream. 1801Southey Thalaba v. xxv, A loud shriek, That shook along the windings of the cave. 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 134/2 That action by which the aliments are carried through the windings of the intestinal canal. 1873Maxwell Electr. & Magn. II. 277 The number of windings of the wire between any two small circles.
10. A flexible rod or withy (obs. or dial.); † esp. (collect. sing. or pl.) the rods or withies used in making or repairing walls; hence, the process involving their use.
1405–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 222 Cariantibus stramen ad tecturam, 2s. It. pro adquisicione de wyndyng, 15d. 1474–5Ibid. 289 In le dalbyng et le wyndyng inter⁓close wallez, sydewallez, gawellez. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §126 With the wyndynge of the edderynges thou doost leuse thy stakes. 1550Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 44 Item, to John James for wyndynge and dawbynge ther..viij d. 1599Order Bk. Hartlebury Gram. School (1904) 24 It'm..for windinge and dawbinge of the church howse. 1601Holland Pliny xiii. iv. I. 387 To make windings to bind vines. Ibid. xxxv. xiv. II. 555 The manner of making walls, by dawbing windings and hurdles with mud and clay. 1649Order Bk. Hartlebury Gram. School (1904) 72 For poules for studds ease poules and windings and carriadge of them o 6 o. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words, Vrith, Eththerings or windings of hedges. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 19/2 Thatchers Termes... Windings, twigs that will bend. 1852Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. ii. 281 Farmers find posts and rails cheaper..than the old system of ‘stake and rice’. Note. Called ‘cock-guard’ in some parts; in others ‘winding’. 1887S. Chesh. Gloss., Weindins, the boughs which are interwoven with the stakes used to shore up the bank of a stream.
III. 11. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 4) winding † blade (blade n. 10 c), winding-loft, winding-machine, winding machinery, winding master, winding room, † winding stool (stool n. 6); (sense 5, esp. in nautical and mining use) winding accident, † winding baly (app. = bail n.5, bucket), winding engine (winding-engineman), winding-gear, † winding hawser, winding hour, † winding iron, winding pit, † winding-pulley, winding-rope, winding shaft, winding tackle, winding time, winding wheel; (sense 6) winding button, winding hole, winding pinion, winding square, winding wheel; † winding band [band n.2 5], a bandage; winding sticks, strips, two equal pieces of wood with straight parallel edges used to determine whether a surface is true (cf. 3).
1895Cath. News 14 Sept. 3 Two terrible *winding accidents occurred in mines in Rhondda Valley.
1336Acc. Exch. K.R. 19/31 m. 5 (P.R.O.) In .ij. *Wyndi[n]gbalies emptis ad eandem [galeam]... Et in ij petris corde de canabo emptis pro Wyndyngrop.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) John xi. 44 Bound feete and handes with *winding bandes. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 262/2 Fascia,..a swathing cloth or winding band to..tye vp wounds.
1530Palsgr. 184 Vnes tournettes, a payre of *wyndynge blades to wynde yarne upon.
1881Britten Watch & Clockm. 71 A contrate wheel squared on to the stem of the *winding button.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Winding-engine, an engine for drawing up buckets, etc. from a well or shaft. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Winding-engine,..a hoisting steam-engine. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Winding Engine.
1904Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 6/4 A terrible calamity was averted at the Navigation Colliery..by the heroism..of the *winding engineman.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Winding-gear, an English term for the winding-machine for mines.
1417in For. Acc. 8 Hen. V D/2 (P.R.O.), j *Wyndyng hauncer. 1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 36 Smalle Warps,..Hawsers,..Wyndyng hausers.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 240/1 On[e] thick gut string, which is played upon with a long Bow or Base Viol stick at the head of it a little below the *winding hole.
1893Daily News 4 May 2/1 In South Wales the *winding hours were 9½ to 10 hours on four days in the week.
1420in For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI F/2 dorso (P.R.O.), *Wyndyng [i]rone.
1846G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. Ser. vi. 197 The tarred haul then passes into the ‘*winding-loft’, where it is wound..upon bobbins.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 422 The two *winding-machines may also be driven by the endless rope.
1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 248 Disarrangement of the *winding machinery.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 68 Cotton Mill:..Winding Room... *Winding Master.
1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Rec. Ser. iv. 337/1 Examine the *winding-pinion depth, to see that it is neither too deep nor shallow.
1417in For. Acc. 8 Hen. V D/1 dorso (P.R.O.), j Ketille j Fane et *Wyndyngpoley.
1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 165 The *winding room, where the women sit some twenty deep in rank after rank by the side of the benches. 1913Times 7 Aug. 4/4 [He] denied that he ever smoked in the ‘winding’ or operating rooms. 1336*Wyndyngrop [see winding-baly]. 1424For. Acc. 59 m. 22 dorso (P.R.O.), j hausere pro wyndyngrope. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Winding Ropes, the ropes by which a cage, chair,..&c., are raised and lowered in a pit-shaft.
Ibid., *Winding Shaft or Pit, the pit-shaft used chiefly for winding purposes.
1884Britten Watch & Clockm. 35 During the going of the clock the shutter..stood in front of the *winding square.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 255 *Winding Sticks are always used in pairs.
1530Palsgr. 289/1 *Wyndyng stole, tournette.
a1625H. Manwayring Sea-man's Dict. s.v., The *winding tackle is thus fitted: a great double block with three shivers in it, which is fast seized to the end of a small cable, which is brought about the head of the mast and so serves for a pendant [etc.]. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 116 Winding Tackle blocks. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Winding-tackle pendant, a strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head, and forming the support of the winding-tackle.
1908Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 5/7 Both *winding times are to be excluded from the calculation of eight hours.
1675in Jeaffreson Middx. County Rec. (1892) IV. 61 Unam rotam Harpedon anglice vocatam a *winding wheele. 1884Britten Watch & Clockm. 240 The operation of throwing the winding wheels out of action.
▪ II. winding, vbl. n.2|ˈwɪndɪŋ, ˈwaɪndɪŋ|
[f. wind v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of blowing or making a blast, chiefly of horns.
c1500in Grose Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 407 To myche wyndinge of the pipis is not the best. 1605Timme Quersit. ii. vii. 138 That renuing is to be attributed to the fire—the outward ventilation or winding comming between as the instrument. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 58 At the winding of a horne. 1670Caveat to Conventiclers 2 This dreadful appearance..was ushered in by the winding of Hornes. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. v. §1 A confused Noise of the opening of Hounds, the winding of Horns [etc.]. 1826Scott Woodst. x, The winding of horns and the galloping of horse. 1940W. de la Mare Pleasures & Speculations 48 The first windings of the Last Trump.
▪ III. winding, vbl. n.3
see wind v.3
▪ IV. winding, ppl. a.1|ˈwaɪndɪŋ|
[f. wind v.1 + -ing2.]
That winds, in various senses.
1. That follows a sinuous course, takes or has a curvilinear form, or is full of bends and turns.
a. Of a staircase: Spiral. Chiefly in winding stairs (sometimes hyphened).
1530Palsgr. 158 Vne vis, a wyndingstayre. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong s.v. Noyau, A paire of winding staires. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxxv. 141 A round Tribunal, whereunto one ascended by fifteen winding stairs. 1679Moxon Mech. Exerc. ix. 153 These Winding steps are made about a solid Newel. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 22 You may go up to the top by a winding staircase that is within it. a1700Evelyn Diary 20 July 1654, A paire of artificial winding-stayres of stone. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 191 Having finished the first flight of steps, fix the top of the first bearer for the winding-tread. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop liii, She left the chapel,..and coming to a low door, which plainly led into the tower, opened it, and climbed the winding stair.
b. Of plants or their parts, lines or figures, etc.
1538Elyot, Vimineus, wyckers, wyndynge roddes, or osyars. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 164 A payre of windynge prickes. 1552–3in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 137 Wynding plate abowte hedd peces. 1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. 34 The stalke is sclender, wyndyng, with claspes about such plantes as are next hym. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 78 If his necke be winding and weake (as if it were broken). 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 193 It was ordained, that this Winding-Iuie of a Plantagenet, should kill the true Tree it selfe. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 184 The winding Trail Of Bears-foot. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 9 Of involved winding Lines it is not necessary to speak. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 16 Thus you may mark a winding figure with a thread on a rocket. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 163 The chambers separated by winding septa. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 230/2 Many of the sheep have upright winding horns.
c. Of the course or outline of natural features, roads, passages, etc.
1555Eden Decades 303 b, Saylynge alonge by the coaste of a wyndynge and bendynge shore. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 31 And so by many winding nookes he straies. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 618 Wy with a crooked and winding streame rolleth downe by Whitney. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 691 A winding Vally. ― æneis iii. 905 Megara's winding Bay. 1791Cowper Four Ages 8 Taking my lonely winding walk, I mus'd. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxi, The winding mountains at length shut Udolpho from her view. 1878J. Buller 40 Yrs. N.Z. i. ii. 27 The river is winding in its course. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xiii, He could rattle five horses and a loaded coach in and out of the creeks and winding bush tracks.
d. Of animals or their movements.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. v. 20 He windes himselfe into this winding Beast, disposing the Serpents tongue to speake to the woman. 1631Quarles Samson iv. 20 The suck-egge Weasell, and the Winding Swallow. 1697Dryden æneis ii. 288 Twice round his waste their [sc. the serpents'] winding Volumes rowl'd. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) III. xii. 79 Thou..dost not know the joys of a chase, and in pursuing a winding game. 1820Clare Poems Rural Life 118 Swallows check their winding flight.
†e. Pliant, bending. Obs. rare.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 192 Feathers and delicat winding beds [orig. pluma & flexiles lectuli].
2. fig.
†a. Tortuous, crooked, wily. Obs.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits 204 A man doubtlesse winding and craftie. 1629H. Burton Truth's Tri. 241 For all his winding wit and wrangling about this place. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. 76 Old, winding, bragging, testy, crafty fox. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. I. 245 Jupiter..was represented Horned, because of his Winding Oracles.
b. Of a narrative: Circuitous, rambling.
[a1596Sir T. More iv. v. 37 The winding laborinth of thy straunge discourse Will nere haue end.] 1887Bowen Virg. æneid i. 341 The grief is a winding story and long. 1923Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Jan. 9/2 The long and winding narrative.
Hence ˈwindingly adv., in a winding manner, circuitously, with twists and turns; ˈwindingness, circuitous or meandering form.
1576Baker Gesner's Jewell of Health 215 b, The pype..doth ascende right up, and not as in the others, *windingly. 1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 47 A riuer, that windingly creepeth with many wauy turnings. 1817Byron Beppo xlii, Where the green alleys windingly allure. 1877Blackmore Erema xiv, The long descent into the depth of winter is..taken..gently, and softly, and windingly, with a great many glimpses back at the summer.
1730Bailey (fol.), Tortuousness, *Windingness or the Turning in and out. 1861Macm. Mag. IV. 134/1 There should be good in the stream's windingness.
▪ V. winding, ppl. a.2
(ˈwɪndɪŋ, in sense 1 ˈwaɪndɪŋ)
[f. wind v.2 + -ing2.]
1. Of a horn: That is winded.
1735Somerville Chase iii. 402 The winding Horn, and Huntsman's Voice, Let loose the gen'ral Chorus.
2. That ‘winds’ one; taking one's breath away.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy ix, The drunken man at least gave some tokens of returning consciousness by making several winding blows at his benefactors. |