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Cindered vs Windered - What's the difference?

cindered | windered |

As verbs the difference between cindered and windered

is that cindered is past tense of cinder while windered is past tense of winder.

cindered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cinder)

    • cinder

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  • An ember.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Slag from a metal furnace.

    • Derived terms

    * cinder block * cinder cone * cinder frame * cinder notch

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reduce something to cinders

    • See also

    * Cinderella * scoria

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    windered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (winder)

    • winder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth
  • A spool around which something is wound
  • A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
  • One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"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.

    • Etymology 3

    Related to winnow.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
    • 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

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