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re-ˈwind, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
To wind again. Also, to wind back. Also absol.
trans.1717Eusden Claudian ii. (R.), Clotho shall rewind the clue. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1115 The throwster re-winds and re-twists it upon the spinning mill. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 289 Trams and organzines are then rewound upon bobbins. 1967H. Harrison Technicolor Time Machine xii. 118 ‘Reel is almost empty on the back projection.’.. ‘Rewind it then.’ 1972D. E. Westlake Bank Shot iv. 23 He pushed the stop button on the cassette recorder, rewound, and played it back. 1977D. Bagley Enemy ix. 65, I switched off the recorder and rewound the tape. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 12 After taking the last picture you disengage the film wind mechanism and rewind the exposed film into its cassette. 1980R. L. C. Fitz Gibbon Rat Report iii. 57 He re-wound the tape and played it over several times.
intr.1862Lytton Str. Story lv. II. 115 The path was rugged..and painfully rewinding up the ascent.
Hence re-ˈwinding vbl. n.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1115 The cost of..re-winding and re-twisting, after it [raw Novi silk] has been dyed, [is] about 5s. 1881C. A. Young Sun 13 A process precisely equivalent to the daily rewinding of the clock. 1930Daily Express 6 Sept. 2/1 Fire broke out in the rewinding room of the Rialto Cinema..yesterday. 1958Newnes' Compl. Amat. Photogr. 71 Nothing is more infuriating than to lose exposed film through a difficult re⁓winding system. |