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Overwind   Listen
verb
Overwind  v. t.  (past & past part. overwound; pres. part. overwinding)  To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.






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"Overwind" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the threshold of your mouth, And waits its answer there.—Oh! do not frown. I've try'd to reason's tune to tune my soul, But love did overwind and crack the string. Though Jove in thunder had cry'd out, YOU SHAN'T, I should have loved her still—for oh, strange fate, Then when I loved her ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding



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