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Definition of Winding engine

Winding engine
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.

Meaning of Winding engine from wikipedia

- proper winding engines in modern mining, but use electric motors that are also traditionally referred to as winding engines. Early winding engines were...
- cylinder – breaks up the ore winding-engine or whim, 26 inches (660 mm) cylinder – raises the ore to the surface man-engine, 24 inches (610 mm) cylinder...
- nine inclined planes: eight were engine-powered, one was operated by a horse gin. The Middleton Top winding engine house at the summit of Middleton Incline...
- the first translocated buildings (the railway station and colliery winding engine) being erected the following year. The first trams began operating on...
- drain water from mines in the same period, and as winding engines. The first steam-related beam engine was developed by Thomas Newcomen. This was not, strictly...
- the rear of the engine house. Apart from using the winding engine to raise and lower the miners and the coal tubs, the winding engine would also have...
- surveyor. Engineman An engineman drove a haulage engine; a winding engineman or winder drove the winding engine. Eye or pit-eye The eye or pit-eye is the area...
- became Bestwood Park". The winding engine house of Bestwood Colliery in the Nottinghamshire coalfield with its vertical steam engine of 1873 has been preserved...
- They acquired another winding engine and two pumping engines. They publish a newsletter, a journal and many books on Cornish engines, the mining industry...
- unusual chain-driven valve gear arrangement. The Swannington incline winding engine on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, manufactured by The Horsely...