Winding

Quick meaning: Winding is a noun meaning gerund of wind.

Meaning

gerund of wind.

More Meanings

1. Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
2. (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
3. present participle and gerund of wind
4. Something wound around another thing.
5. Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
6. Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
7. (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.

Example Sentences

Swallows check their winding flight, / And twittering on the chimney light.

[H]e [Satan] vvindes himſelfe into this vvinding Beaſt, diſpoſing the Serpents tongue to ſpeake to the vvoman [Eve] […]

They [two sea serpents] next invade: / Tvvice round his [Laocoön's] vvaſte their vvinding Volumes rovvl'd, / And tvvice about his gaſping Throat they fold.

If his [an ox's] necke ſvvell let him blood, or if his necke be vvinding and vveake [as if it vvere broken] then let him blood in that eare to vvhich ſide the head bendeth.

Word Forms

• windings

Synonyms for winding

Depending on context, synonyms include circuitous, circumlocutionary, meandering, tortuous, crooked, twist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include twist, crooked, twisty, meandering, tortuous, wandering.

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