Winder Meaning
/ˈwaɪndɚ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA winding plant.
nounAn engine that raises and lowers the cages in a mine.
Sentence Examples
The clock has a small and gold winder on the side of the metal case.
A winder is a person or a thing that winds something like a clock.
The watchmaker replaced the broken winder of the clock.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He used a small ____ to turn the key on the old grandfather clock.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old clock featured a small ____ that had to be turned every single day to keep the machine running correctly today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English wynder; equivalent to wind + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
""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:
"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:
"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):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He used a small ____ to turn the key on the old grandfather clock.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old clock featured a small ____ that had to be turned every single day to keep the machine running correctly today.