winder

plural winders

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).

   1984, J. G. Ohler, K. H. Reichelderfer, Gerald A. Carlson, Economic Guidelines for Crop Pest Control, volumes 57-60, page 165

2. businessAn engine that raises and lowers the cages in a mine.
3. businessThe 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

   Synonyms: stem

7. One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).

plural winders

1. slangA 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.

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

present singular third person winders · participle present windering · participle past windered · past windered

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

plural winders

1. A winnowing fan.

plural winders

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation 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 […]

   1868, Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False

   1 more example

   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.

   2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe)

plural Winders · alternative Wynder

1. countableA surname originating as an occupation.
2. A placename, from the surname:
   1. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Barrow County, Georgia, United States.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho, United States.