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Winding sheet
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.

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- The Winding Sheet is the debut studio album by alternative rock artist Mark Lanegan. It was released in 1990 on Sub Pop. The album was Lanegan's first...
- to the Holy Face of Jesus, and decreed that the "Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ" be celebrated every year on Shrove Tuesday. In 1936, Pius...
- winding sheet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A winding sheet, or burial shroud, is a cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial. Winding sheet may...
- most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the Jewish tachrichim or Muslim...
- also began a solo career and released his first solo studio album, The Winding Sheet, in 1990. He then released 10 more solo albums, which received critical...
- In the Catholic liturgical calendar, the Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ honours the Shroud of Turin, and is observed on May 4, annually. It...
- pure linen and ****es, and he laid it in a new tomb. an epitaphios or "winding sheet" (a cloth embroidered with the image of Christ prepared for burial)...
- Sleep Last Night?" was later released on Mark Lanegan's album, The Winding Sheet, in 1990. "Grey Goose", "Ain't It a Shame" and "They Hung Him on a Cross"...
- Seattle scene; some of these later appeared on Lanegan's solo album The Winding Sheet and on the Nirvana rarities compilation With the Lights Out. Pickerel...
- with branches of verbena; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere. The homunculus has also been compared...