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  • noun Plural form of winder.

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Examples

  • It takes a little while to get the hang of using them, but they're excellent skein winders.

    Favorite Tools 2006

  • It takes a little while to get the hang of using them, but they're excellent skein winders.

    January 2006 2006

  • You can get these things called winders, which have curvey bits at the top and bottom, but feel like real stairs.

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2004

  • "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.) Various 1887

  • June 22nd, 2009 2: 01 pm ET jay do you actually think any one cares about what you say on the same website the right winders post on, shut up, quit gripping and get a real job

    Is Obama too soft on Iran? 2009

  • Deeshrag to warsh winders … with wadder from da crick down da holler.

    The January Rasmussen Trust Numbers. | RedState 2010

  • In terms much more striking than any government minister – even a Lib Dem – would use today, he insisted: We sent the hat round ... amongst the workmen and winders of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, the weavers of the High Peak and the Scotsmen of Dumfries ... who all dropped in their coppers.

    A central London house for £20,000 – how prices looked in 1910 2011

  • We can keep talking about their conservative thoughts but deep down inside we know these ring winders are ALL fear mongering beasts.

    Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee 2009

  • The watch faces on the winders undulated all about her.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • They were watch winders, elegant boxes that opened to reveal velvet, er, whatchamacallits—things maybe?

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

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