rewindingn.
/(ˌ)riːˈwʌɪndɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈwaɪndɪŋ/ The action or process of winding back or again.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > action of winding or setting
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling round something > again
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > coiling round something > backwards
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1785 J. B. Holroyd Observ. Manuf. Irel. 206 Dyed velveret..passes from the raw material to a finished state, through the following different processes, viz:..winding, doubling, twisting, re-winding, warping, pin-winding, [etc.].
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 The cost of..re-winding and re-twisting, after it [sc. raw Novi silk] has been dyed, [is] about 5s.
1881 C. A. Young Sun 13 A process precisely equivalent to the daily rewinding of the clock.
1930 Daily Express 6 Sept. 2/1 Fire broke out in the rewinding room of the Rialto Cinema..yesterday.
1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. 71 Nothing is more infuriating than to lose exposed film through a difficult rewinding system.
1999 W. W. Dixon Disaster & Memory i. 32 This cycle, like all the others, awaits only the rewinding of a reel of film, or a cassette tape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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