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Castine. 3. Warped; twisted; bent; crooked: as, a wind ing surface. winding1 (win'ding), n. [ wyndynge ; verbal n. of wind1 , v.] 1. A turn or turning; abend; flexure; meander: as, the windings of a road or stream. The degise, endentyng, barrynge, owndynge, palynge, wyndynge or bendynge, and semblable wast of clooth in vanitee. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. They [the ways] were wonder full hard, all stony and full of windings . Coryat , Crudities, I. 92. To follow the windings of this river. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 537). The windings of the marge. Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 2. A twist in any surface, so that all its parts do not lie in the same plane; a casting or warping. Gwilt . Compound winding. When the field magnets of a dynamo are fitted with two coils, one of which is placed in circuit with the armature and external leads, while the other is connected acro the terminals as a shunt, the dynamo is said to be compound wound , and the winding compound winding. - Differential winding. See differential .-In winding, warped; out of the straight: applied by joiners to a piece of wood when two of its opposite corners stand higher than the other two. - Out of winding, brought to plan said of surface worke men's phrase. - Series winding. A dynamo is said to be series wound, or to have a series winding , when its field magnet coil is joined in series with the armature coil.Shunt winding. When the field-magnet coils of a dynamo are designed for, and connected as, a shunt on the armature coil, the dynamo is said to be shunt wound , and the method of winding shunt winding . winding2 (win'ding), n. [Verbal n. of wind2 , v .] A call by the boatswain's whistle. winding-engine (win'ding-en"jin), n. Any steam-motor employed to turn a drum around which a hoisting-rope is drawn; in a mine, an engine by which the ropes are wound on and unwound from the drums, for raising or lowering the bucket, kibble, or cage on which the mined material is brought to the surface. Also called drawing - engine and hoisting - engine. windingly (win'ding-li), adv . In a winding man-. ner; with curves, bends, or turns. The stream that creeps Windingly by it. Keats , Endymion, i. winding-pendant (win'ding-pen"dant), n. Naut . , a pendant hooked at the fore or main masthead with its bight secured as far out as nece ary on the foreyard or main-yard, and having a heavy tackle, called a winding - tackle , depending from its lower end, used for lifting heavy weights. winding-rope (win'ding-rōp), n. In mining , the rope which connects the cage with the drum of the winding-engine. Formerly the winding-ropes winding-rope were of hemp or manila; at the present time steel wire is chiefly used, and both flat and round ropes are employed. In one of the largest Belgian coal-mines, in which the lift is 765 yards, the rope (which tapers toward the bottom) weighs 6 tons. winding-sheet (win'ding-shēt), n. 1. A sheet in which a corpse is wrapped. These arms of mine shall be thy winding - sheet ; My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5. 114. 2. Solidified drippings of grease from a candle which cling to the side of it and present some resemblance to drapery in its folds and creases. The appearance of this has been fancied to be an omen of death or other misfortune.