Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
wincey .
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Examples
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The Kenkari, reading the book on the Kicksey-winsey, realized that the machine would bring the lands of the elves and the humans together, that the dwarves would have control over the machine.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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The citadels need the energy from the Kicksey-winsey.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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He could see the continent of Drevlin, the metal parts of the great Kicksey-winsey flashing in the intermittent sunlight.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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Light glinted and flashed off the gold and silver and brass parts of the fabulous Kicksey-winsey.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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On Arianus, the great Kicksey-winsey went to work, but it lacked direction.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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The Kicksey-winsey would be up and running, the citadels in operation.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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Alfred had the strange impression of Haplo's mind racing down a track, like the flash rafts of the Kicksey-winsey, the great iron carriages that scuttled along on iron rails, powered by the lightning of the 'lectric zingers.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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The Sartan ran the star chambers, which were designed to work with the Kicksey-winsey to beam energy to the other worlds.
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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Thus the Kicksey-winsey on Arianus will still send energy to the citadels on Pryan, which will beam energy to the conduits on Abarrach, which will in turn send" "
The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994
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Even when parts of the Kicksey-winsey broke down, it worked; other parts worked to repair those that didn't.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
chained_bear commented on the word winsey
"As a boy I recall washing and polishing my mother's shoes nearly every day from the spring mud and summer dust. In summer, women generally wore 'winseys,' lighter, more ruffled dresses, except when doing outdoor work—salting, potato scraping, gardening, and the like—when they wore housedresses covered with rough burlap aprons, or aprons made of burny cloth."
—Howard Norman, The Bird Artist (New York: Picador USA), 51
March 20, 2009
Gwil commented on the word winsey
In "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel." by Baroness Orczy, the title character says, "Ever since mademoiselle first tripped past me at the angle of the Pont Neuf dressed in winsey kirtle and wearing sabots on her feet...." Since a kirtle is a garment, I thought that winsey would be a type of cloth.
October 22, 2015
erinmckean commented on the word winsey
It is an alternate spelling of the word wincey which is a kind of cloth. :-)
October 22, 2015
bilby commented on the word winsey
It's not a real word until it has a qms limerick, them's the rules.
October 22, 2015
qms commented on the word winsey
Oh, dear, such a heavy responsibility. How to rhyme a variant spelling of an obscure British word? The letter "c" in the town of Quincy in my part of the world is voiced, like a "z." Elsewhere it is unvoiced, like an "s." I see the same potential for confusion in the "s" of winsey.
The unvoiced version could produce something like this:
On the other hand, the voiced version would fit the following:
I am at an impasse with pronunciation, so I give up.
October 23, 2015