winder n.1
1. a sentence of transportation for life.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: WINDER. Transportation for life. The blowen has napped a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for stealing in a shop. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Hundred Stretches Hence’ in Vocabulum 124: Some rubbed to whit had napped a winder, / And some were scragged and took a blinder. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict. 96: Winder, a life sentence. |
2. (Aus.) a life sentence.
| Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: Imprisonment for a long period is a jade, and for life a winder. |