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Coiling vs Winder - What's the difference?

coiling | winder |

As a verb coiling

is .

As a noun coiling

is the pattern or motion of something that coils.

As a proper noun winder is

.

coiling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pattern or motion of something that coils.
  • * (Herman Melville), The Encantadas
    • Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"

    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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