What is "winding sheet"

Winding \Wind"ing\, n.

1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

   To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
   --Milton.

2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as (Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a character that the armature current is divided, a portion of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.

   Winding engine, an engine employed in mining to draw up buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.

   Winding sheet, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or wrapped.

   Winding tackle (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.
   --Totten.

n. A burial shroud.