Defn: Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
Keble.
WINDING
Wind"ing, n.
Defn: A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton.
Defn: 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. Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine. — Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped. — Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel. Totten.
WINDINGLY
Wind"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a winding manner.
WINDJAMMER
Wind"jam`mer, n.
1. (Naut.) A sailing vessel or one of its crew; — orig. so called contemptuously by sailors on steam vessels. [Colloq.]
2. An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. [Slang]
WINDLACE
Wind"lace, n. & v.