compound-wound

[ kom-pound-wound ]

/ ˈkɒm paʊndˈwaʊnd /

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adjective Electricity.

noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.

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compound winding

[wahyn-ding], /ˈwaɪn dɪŋ/, noun

Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
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But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.
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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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As the interview wound down, Bentivolio reflected on what may have motivated him to dress as Santa.
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But others say a still-unidentified man likely fired the round that caused a lethal head wound.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
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Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.
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They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
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Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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