Winding

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A call by the boatswain's whistle.

II. Winding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Wind.

III. Winding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Wind.

IV. Winding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Wind.

V. Winding ·adj Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.

VI. Winding ·noun A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

VII. Winding ·add. ·noun The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material;.

VIII. Winding ·noun A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.

IX. Winding ·add. ·noun a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.