Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Winding engine}, an engine employed in mining to draw up
      buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.

   {Winding sheet}, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or
      wrapped.

   {Winding tackle} (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed
      triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used
      for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.
      --Totten.