winding engine
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English
Noun
winding engine (plural winding engines)
- A stationary engine used to control a cable, for example to power a mining hoist at a pit head.
- 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
- 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, .
References
- “winding engine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.