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Goldsmith, Voltaire. (f) To bring into a state of renewed or continued motion, as a watch or clock, by coiling anew the spring or drawing up the weights. When an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own. Suckling , Aglaura, Epil. IMG:content-2409.png:[blocks in formation] 7. To haul or hoist by or as by a winch, whim, (h) To hoist; draw; raise by or as by a winch. capstan, or the like: as, to wind or warp a ship out of harbor; specifically, specifically, in mining , to raise (the produce of the mine) to the surface by means of a winding-engine; hoist. The term wind , as well as draw , is often employed in Great Britain, while hoist is generally used in the United States. In the early days of mining, ore and coal were almost exclusively raised by hand-, horse-, or steam-power, in buckets or kib- bles; at the present time, in both England and the United States, this is done by means of a winding-engine which turns a drum on which a rope (generally of steel wire) is wound and unwound, and by means of which a cage (see cage , 3 (d)) is raised or lowered, on which the loaded cars are lifted to the surface, and the empties returned to the pit-bottom. The dimensions of engines, drums, and cages in large mines are sometimes very great, as is also the velocity with which the machinery is moved. Thus, in the Monk wear mouth colliery, Durham, England, the wind ing-drums are 25 feet in diameter, the rope weighs 41⁄2 tons, the cage and load 71 tons; the vertical distance through which the cage is raised is 580 yards, and the time occu- pied in lifting it and discharging the cars is two minutes and four seconds. Let me see thy hand: this was ne'er made to wash, Or wind up water, beat clothes, or rub floor. Beau . and Fl . , Coxcomb, ii. 2. Winding-up Act, in Eng . law , an act providing for the di olution of joint-stock companies, and the winding up of their affairs; more specifically, 7 and 8 Vict., c. 111 (1844); followed and amended by 9 and 10 Vict., c. 28 (1846); 11 and 12 Vict., c. 45 (1848); 12 and 13 Vict., c. 108 (1849); 13 and 14 Vict., c. 83 (1850); 19 and 20 Vict., c. 47 (1856); 20 and 21 Vict., c. 49, c. 78 (1857); and superseded by The Companies' Act (1862), 25 and 26 Vict., c. 89. wind1 (wind), n. [ winde (= MD. MHG. winde, OHG. wintā ) ; from the verb.] A wind- ing; a turn; a bend: as, the road there takes a wind to the south. - Out of wind, free from bends or crooks; perfectly straight. [Colloq.] wind2 (wind; formerly and still poetically also wind), n. [ wynd , wind = OS. OFries. D. LG. wind = OHG. MHG. wint, G. wind = Icel. vindr = Sw. Dan. vind = Goth. winds , winths , wind, air in motion, = W. gwynt wind And erly on the Tewysday, whiche was seynt Thomas daye, we made sayle, and pa ed by the costes of Slauony and Hystria with easy wynde . Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 9. By reason of contrary windes we put backe againe to Prodeno, because we could not fetch Sapient i a. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 168. 2. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compa , especially one of the cardinal points. [Rare.]