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stem-winding

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stem-wind·ing (stmwndng)
adj.
1. Wound by turning an expanded crown on the stem.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by rousing oration: "a stem-winding style that one associates with the Senate of a hundred years ago" (New Yorker).
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