Wounder vs Winder - What's the difference?
wounder | winder |
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).
(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.
* 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
As a noun wounder
is one who wounds.As a proper noun winder is
.winder
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Related to winnow.Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- 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