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winding engines

winding engines is the plural of winding engine.

Meaning of winding engine

Noun

winding engine (plural winding engines)

  1. A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.
    • Now its only duty is to let down the coal required by the pumping plant at the bottom and to draw up the empties, which it does by means of a wire rope attached to a large drum driven by the original winding engine, but originally the engine pulled up the incline the coal from the pit at the...1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3

Questions about winding engines

What is winding engines the plural of?
Winding engines is the plural of winding engine.

Words near winding engines in the dictionary

  1. winding back the clock
  2. winding cloth
  3. winding cloths
  4. winding down
  5. winding engine
  6. winding engines
  7. winding hole
  8. winding holes
  9. winding key
  10. winding number
  11. winding numbers

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