"winding engine" meaning in English

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          "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, [...].",
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        "A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head."
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