mechanical device around which something can be wound | breath |
mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) | a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus |
a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism) | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath |
| an indication of potential opportunity |
| empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk |
| air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure |
| a tendency or force that influences events |
| the act of winding or twisting |