winder

noun

1. A winding plant.

   “Two types of leguminous crops combine most of the above mentioned favourable characteristics, the vines (creepers or winders, fig. 23) and the bushes (fig. 22).”

2. An engine that raises and lowers the cages in a mine.
3. The person who operates such an engine.
4. A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.
5. A spool around which something is wound.
6. A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
7. One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).
8. (slang)A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.

   “"Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house again," he said.”

9. A winnowing fan.
10. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of window.

    “That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters […]”

    “Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.”

verb

1. To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

name

1. (countable)A surname originating as an occupation.
2. (countable, uncountable)A placename, from the surname:
3. (countable, uncountable)A placename, from the surname: