winder: Meaning and Definition of

wind•er

Pronunciation: (wīn'dur), [key]
— n.
  1. a person or thing that winds.
  2. a staircase step for changing direction. Cf.(def. 9).
  3. a plant that coils or twines itself about something.
  4. an instrument or a machine for winding thread or the like.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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