See winding engine on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "winding engines", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "winding engine (plural winding engines)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:", "text": "Now its only duty is to let down the coal required by the pumping plant at the bottom and to draw up the empties, which it does by means of a wire rope attached to a large drum driven by the original winding engine, but originally the engine pulled up the incline the coal from the pit at the bottom, [...].", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head." ], "id": "en-winding_engine-en-noun-08-CxtCb", "links": [ [ "stationary", "stationary" ], [ "control", "control" ], [ "cable", "cable" ], [ "mining", "mining" ], [ "hoist", "hoist" ] ], "wikipedia": [ "winding engine" ] } ], "word": "winding engine" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "winding engines", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "winding engine (plural winding engines)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:", "text": "Now its only duty is to let down the coal required by the pumping plant at the bottom and to draw up the empties, which it does by means of a wire rope attached to a large drum driven by the original winding engine, but originally the engine pulled up the incline the coal from the pit at the bottom, [...].", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head." ], "links": [ [ "stationary", "stationary" ], [ "control", "control" ], [ "cable", "cable" ], [ "mining", "mining" ], [ "hoist", "hoist" ] ], "wikipedia": [ "winding engine" ] } ], "word": "winding engine" }
Download raw JSONL data for winding engine meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (db0bec0 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.