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What does overwind mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To wind (tighten a spring of) something excessively.
  2. To twist itself more tightly.
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The reason for this is that motion is conveyed to this hand through a hair spring which would be damaged if allowed to overwind.
There were several accidents at Bickershaw Colliery, but the most serious was in 1932, when 19 men were drowned in the sump at the bottom of the shaft after an overwind of the cage.
The Standard model has ete conceived to fulfill the requirements hereafter and to overwind.
Young, moist tendrils do not tend to overwind, the researchers report online today in Science, but mature, dry tendrils do—helping to explain how delicate tendrils gradually stiffen to support a vine laden with cucumbers.

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