Crossword-Solution: WINDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Winding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Wind |
| Winding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Wind |
| Winding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Wind |
| Winding | n. | A call by the boatswain's whistle. |
| Winding | a. | Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. |
| Winding | n. | A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. |
| Winding | n. | A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “WINDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Twisty, as a road | 1 answer |
| Ending (up) | 1 answer |
| " . . . long, long trail a-___" | 1 answer |
| flexuous | 4 answers |
| coiling | 4 answers |
| Snaky | 8 answers |
| circuitous | 14 answers |
| subtext | 15 answers |
| tortuousness | 15 answers |
| indirectness | 16 answers |
| roundabout nature | 16 answers |
| Twisty? | 16 answers |
| obliqueness | 16 answers |
| implicitness | 16 answers |
| indirect nature | 17 answers |
| Zig-zagging | 17 answers |
| anfractuous | 17 answers |
| circuitousness | 18 answers |
| obliquity | 19 answers |
| Serpentine | 21 answers |
| Spiral | 27 answers |
| convoluted | 36 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| Twisting | 55 answers |
| tortuous | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINDING (5)
Mean while in utmost Longitude, where Heav’n With Earth and Ocean meets, the setting Sun Slowly descended, and with right aspect Against the eastern Gate of Paradise Leveld his eevning Rayes: it was a Rock Of Alablaster, pil’d up to the Clouds, Conspicuous farr, winding with one ascent Accessible from Earth, one entrance high; The rest was craggie cliff, that overhung Still as it rose, impossible to climbe.
The Bergson homestead was easier to find than many another, because it overlooked Norway Creek, a shallow, muddy stream that sometimes flowed, and sometimes stood still, at the bottom of a winding ravine with steep, shelving sides overgrown with brush and cottonwoods and dwarf ash.
The shell had been so thin, so devoid of excrescence, and so closely drawn over the accommodation granted, that the grim character of what was beneath showed through it, as the shape of a body is visible under a winding sheet.
Here, Citoyen Desgas, tie this handkerchief tightly round the fellow’s mouth.” Chauvelin handed a scarf to Desgas, who solemnly began winding it round the Jew’s mouth.
With the latter as our guide we set off rapidly but cautiously through a maze of passages, crossing great chambers hewn from the solid metal of the cliff, following winding corridors, ascending steep inclines, and now and again concealing ourselves in dark recesses at the sound of approaching footsteps.
Quotes with WINDING (3)
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching pur…
Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the *beautiful*. The stirring of each is pleasant, but in different ways. The sight of a mountain whose snow-covered peak rises above the clouds, the description of a raging storm, or Milton's portrayal of the infernal kingdom, arouse enjoyment but with horror; on the other hand, the sight of flower strewn meadows, valleys with winding brooks and covered with grazin…
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1993–2011).