unwindingadj.
Straight; not deviating.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [adjective] > winding > not
unwinding1886
1886 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 67 Stopping-places where we may sit down awhile, and then soon be up again to pursue life's unwinding and immeasurable road.
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unˈwinding
unˈwinding n. also attributive.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > uncoiling or unwinding > [noun]
unwinding1648
backing-off1839
uncoiling1839
society > leisure > [noun] > relaxation
relaxation1548
unbending1552
relax1597
decompression1951
unwinding1977
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een ontdraeyinge,..an Vnwinding.
1708 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (1727) 161 The dull unwinding of Life's tedious Thread.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xi. 182 The solution of all knots, and unwinding of all intricacies.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 515 The balance, having now all the velocity it would acquire from the unwinding the spring.
1866 A. I. Ritchie Village on Cliff xiv The whole thing seemed running through her head like the unwinding of a skein.
1889 C. Sleeman Torpedoes (ed. 2) 235 The torpedo is launched, and the engine started which is to work the unwinding reels or drums.
1895 Model Steam Engine 23 The unwinding of a reel of cotton.
1933 H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup ix. 398 He began..to play with himself that tedious parlour game known as ‘unwinding’.
1971 D. Clark Sick to Death ii. 23 The unwinding part of the day when most people like to take their ease.
1977 A. Morice Scared to Death xiv. 94 There is something anti-climactic about going straight home..when the curtain comes down and it is quite pleasant to indulge in some gentle unwinding.
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