Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wound by turning an expanded crown on the stem.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by rousing oration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wound by turning the stem, and not by a key: said of a watch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wound by mechanism connected with the stem.
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Examples
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The Speaker then made a stem-winding speech urging the caucus to devote every waking moment until March 18 to finding balls.
Mark Steinberg: House Democrats Given Chance To Find Balls Mark Steinberg 2011
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He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches.
Obama stumps in Las Vegas to bail out Harry Reid Philip Rucker 2010
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He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches.
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He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches.
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He doesn't get up and make big stem-winding speeches.
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An often profane showman who was known for wearing the world's worst toupee, Traficant routinely ended his explosive, stem-winding floor speeches by quoting the "Star Trek" line "Beam me up!"
Jim Traficant's trying times of 2002 could be repeated for Rep. Charles Rangel 2010
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In fact, it is roughly the same length as "In Defense of Distraction," the book critic's stem-winding manifesto about the impact of the Internet on the cultural consumption of an entire generation.
ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile 2010
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In fact, it is roughly the same length as "In Defense of Distraction," the book critic's stem-winding manifesto about the impact of the Internet on the cultural consumption of an entire generation.
ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile 2010
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The darling of the hard-right; she gives stem-winding speeches.
Charlie Gibson agreed to have his nuts cut out -- according to Josh Marshall. Ann Althouse 2008
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He came out for him in that stem-winding of a speech and saying that he saw in Barack Obama a John Kennedy lookalike.
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