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stem-winder

noun

  1. a watch wound by an expanded crown on the bar projecting outside the case, as opposed to one wound by a separate key Also calledstem-winding watch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Trump’s 90-minute-plus stem-winder went on well past midnight on the East Coast.

But for viewers who watched the whole 92-minute stem-winder, which devolved into a meandering list of bogus claims and well-worn grievances, the lesson was that there is no New Trump.

Some prodding and shoving with a pole in the grooves of the stem-winder made it turn round a dozen times.

Bryan was ready with his clickbait: a stem-winder on the evils of income inequality.

Last year, he hugged the American flag and launched into a stem-winder that lasted more than two hours.

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