winders

• These fancy new stem-winders were some of the coolest gadgets around—so cool that by the late 1800s, people were applying the term stem-winder to mean anything excellent or first-rate.
• The importance of in-wound tension was discussed and how it is achieved and measured on various types of winders, as well as the causes and cures of common roll and web defects.
• It hain't but two winders, and none on the wood side," replied Kit. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
• I'll remember wot yer said 'bout that 'ere cottage Be sure as the winders is big enough fur me to see the stars," called out Giles after him CHAPTER XXIII AMATEUR DETECTIVE Mrs. Price had been blessed by nature with two sons, each as different in manners, disposition, appearance, and tastes as the poles. —  Sue, A Little Heroine
• Well, Tim was that mad he broke every plate on the table an' then went and drank hisself stiff in Casey's saloon And what do ye think," cried Mrs. McGinniss, as Mrs. Kelly stopped for breath, "the other night, when me an' some frinds was comin' in for a quiet avenin', we found my Ellen Addy had hauled the bed into the front room, an' she an' the young ones was all asleep, an' up to the winders was my best petticut cut in two. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)

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