Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any steam-motor employed to turn a drum around which a hoisting-rope is drawn; in a mine, an engine by which the ropes arc wound on and unwound from the drums, for raising or lowering the bucket, kibble, or cage on which the mined material is brought to the surface. Also called
drawing-engine and hoisting-engine.
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Examples
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From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives.
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The winding-engine pulsed hurriedly, with brief pauses.
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The two wheels were spinning fast up against the sky, and the winding-engine rapped out its little spasms.
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She was startled by the rapid chuff of the winding-engine at the pit, and the sharp whirr of the brakes on the rope as it descended.
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The old woman continued to muse aloud, a monotonous irritating sound, while Elizabeth thought concentratedly, startled once, when she heard the winding-engine chuff quickly, and the brakes skirr with a shriek.
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The load once on the winding-engine, the consumption of power is small for the extra distance, and the saving of labor is of consequence.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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Even with a separate winch or auxiliary winding-engine, delays are unavoidable in a working shaft, especially as it usually has more water to contend with than one not in use for operating the mine.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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Inasmuch as the winding-engine, even when the ore haulage is finished for the day, must be under steam for handling men in emergencies, and as the labor of stokers, engine-drivers, shaft-men, etc., is therefore necessary, the cost of power consumed by bailing is not great, despite the low efficiency of winding-engines.
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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And so at last he sank a shaft, sixty feet deep, rigged up a corrugated-iron engine-house with a winding-engine, and lowered his men one at a time down the shaft, in a big bucket.
The Lost Girl 1907
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The winding-engine was turning, the pulley at the top of the head-gear whizzing round; nothing looked unusual.
Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900
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