windin'

Noun

winding (countable and uncountable, plural windings)

1. (attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
2. The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
   • Novv their opinions of the end of the vvorld, of Paradiſe, and of hell; exceede the vanity of dreames, and all old vviues fables. They ſay, that at the vvinding of a horne not only all fleſh ſhall die, but the Angels themſelues: & that the earth vvith earthquakes ſhall be kneaded together like a...1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 58

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