Usually means: Cloth used to wrap corpses.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word winding sheet:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. winding sheet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. winding-sheet: Merriam-Webster
  3. winding sheet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. winding-sheet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. winding sheet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. winding-sheet: Vocabulary.com
  7. winding-sheet, winding sheet: Wordnik
  8. winding sheet: Wiktionary
  9. winding sheet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. winding sheet: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. winding-sheet, winding sheet: Dictionary.com
  12. The Winding Sheet, Winding-sheet, Winding sheet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. winding-sheet: Rhymezone
  14. winding-sheet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. winding-sheet, winding sheet: FreeDictionary.org
  16. winding-sheet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. winding-sheet, winding sheet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winding-sheet, winding sheet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winding sheet: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winding sheet: The Folk File

Definitions from Wiktionary (winding sheet)

noun:  A burial shroud.
noun:  (historical) A collection of tallow rising up against the wick of a candle, once regarded as an omen of death.

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