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say it: WIN-dur
winder is a noun meaning "a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)
mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
mechanical device around which something can be wound
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for winder come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.