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Self-winding

adjective

Designed so that manual winding is unnecessary.

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"Self-winding" Quotes from Famous Books

... Brian. "And wasn't he mad? If he hadn't been a coward he would have licked me instead. As it was, I never fully understood why his wife shied an egg at me. However, that's all rather a shady part of my past. I'm not reminding you of the self-winding blunderbuss you got in part payment for chopping wood, am I? Or that it went off by itself and ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

... while the Creator of the world, yet sustains no further relations to it. He made it just as the clock-maker makes a self-winding clock: makes it and then leaves it to run itself without any interference on His part. Such teaching as this finds no sanction in the Bible. What are God's relations to the universe ...

— The Great Doctrines of the Bible • Rev. William Evans

... Self-winding and self-regulating clocks came into vogue, being automatically adjusted through the Western Union telegraph lines, so that at noon each day the correct time was instantly communicated to their hands from the national observatory. Another invaluable use of the telegraph ...

— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews