(wīn′ding) noun
1. The act or condition of one who or that which winds; a spiral turning or coiling.
2. A bend or turn, or a series of them.
3. A warp or twist from a plane surface.
4. Electr. The manner in which the wire is wound in a coil, as on the armature of a dynamo.
5. A defective gait of horses in which one leg seems to wind around the other.
—adjective
1. Turning spirally about an axis or core.
2. Having bends or lateral turns.
3. Twisting from a plane.

(wīn′ding) noun
A boatswain's signal.