stem-winder

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Noun
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stem-wind=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stem-winder has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

stem-windern. 
  •  A stem-winding watch.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; -- esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase “a stem-winder of a speech” or “delivered a stem-winder”.  [PJC]

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