winding

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of wind
• Present participle of wind

Noun

• Something wound around something else.
• The manner in which something is wound.
• One complete turn of something wound.
• Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
• A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
• Lapping.
• The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).

Adjective

• Twisting, turning or sinuous.
• Spiral or helical.

Origin

• From wind + -ing, from wind.
• From Middle English wyndynge, equivalent to wind + -ing, from wind, as the wind was used to assist turning.