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Stem-winder
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noun
Stem-winder
n.
1.
A stem-winding watch. (Colloq.)
2.
Hence: (Fig.) Anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase
"a stem-winder of a speech"
or
"delivered a stem-winder"
.
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