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What is a stem-winder?

What is a stem-winder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) A rousing speech, especially by a politician.
  2. (US) Someone who gives such speeches; a great orator.
  3. (US, proscribed) A boring, interminable speech.
  4. (US, obsolete) Something top-notch or first-rate.
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There's a new bank examiner over at the First, and he's a stem-winder.
How about Rush Limbaugh hanging out while John Kerry delivers his stem-winder?
Let's anybody look at it, and keeps a holt o' the stem-winder.
Giuliani used some of the most overt forms in order to present a classic political stem-winder.
Mame was looking at the table like a boy looks at his first stem-winder.

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