winding

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having many turns and bends; not straight.

   We drove slowly along the winding mountain road.

2. 2
   adj

   Of speech or writing: long and not getting to the point.

   His winding explanation left everyone confused.

The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“directional change, curve, turn; bend of the leg at the knee; meandering course of a river; act of turning and twisting; twisting of things (especially thread) together; wrapping of a cloth around something; wattling of a structure; wattle(s); ornamentation with interwoven patterns; hoisting of something”) [and other forms], and then partly: * from winden, wynden (“to go, move; to move forcefully or suddenly; to direct, guide, lead; to go along a meandering or twisting course; to move in a circular pattern, revolve, turn; to…

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