- a person or thing that winds.
- a staircase step for changing direction.
- a plant that coils or twines itself about something.
- an instrument or a machine for winding thread or the like.
- a person or device that winds, as an engine for hoisting the cages in a mine shaft or a device for winding the yarn in textile manufacture
- an object, such as a bobbin, around which something is wound
- a knob or key used to wind up a clock, watch, or similar mechanism
- any plant that twists itself around a support
- a step of a spiral staircase
