Definition of "overwinding" [overwinding]

• Present participle of overwind. (verb)

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• "With traditional self-winding watches use a slipping mainspring to prevent overwinding."
• "Perhaps the biggest problem on top was making signals to the engineers in the yard below to prevent overwinding of the hoisting engines."
• "Not only untrained whites, explained Rose, 'but Coolies and even Kaffirs also' were thus employed, 'with the inevitable result that accidents to men employed in the mines through overwinding the cages or otherwise became more frequent.'"