Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stationary motor-driven or hand-powered machine used for hoisting or hauling, having a drum around which is wound a rope or chain attached to the load being moved.
- noun The crank used to give motion to a grindstone or similar device.
- transitive verb To move with or as if with a winch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hoist or haul by means of a winch.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
wince . - noun The crank, projecting handle, or lever by which the axis of a revolving machine is turned, as in the common windlass, the grindstone, etc. See cut under
Prony's dynamometer . - noun A kind of hoisting-machine or windlass, in which an axis is turned by means of a crank-handle, and a rope or chain is thus wound round it so as to raise a weight.
- noun The reel of a fishing-rod.
- noun Same as
wince .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
- noun A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
- noun A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
- noun An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
- noun An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
- noun A wince.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A machine consisting of a
drum on anaxle , apawl , and acrank handle , with or withoutgearing , to give increasedmechanical advantage whenhauling on arope . - noun nautical A
hoisting machine used forloading ordischarging cargo , or forhauling inlines . (FM 55-501). - noun A
wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth). - verb To use a winch
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
- verb pull or lift up with or as if with a winch
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A winch is an absolute must, a missionary friend of mine uses an atv to hunt and he says he uses his winch almost every time he goes out.
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With a long remote cord, you can also operate the winch from the cab if necessary.
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Reduced to essentials, an electric winch is a motorized drum that unspools and spools a length of heavy-duty wire rope.
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A winch is an absolute must, a missionary friend of mine uses an atv to hunt and he says he uses his winch almost every time he goes out.
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* Disconnect the remote control when the winch is not in use.
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Upon trolling the appropriate courseand in a show of considerable forcewe'll winch from the deepand grab in mid leapa swordfish we can ride like a horse
Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest John Merwin 2008
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Maybe use a chain winch or hoist that they use in industrial applications whereby almost anyone of any stature can lift a great deal of weight with a pull of a chain and then let it slowly descend to generate electricity!
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OBAMA '08 (and although she's a habitual liar I'll vote for Hillary if the winch is in the general ...
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"W'y, Miss," answered Jack Molloy, who chanced to be sitting on a spare yard close at hand working a Turk's head on a manrope, "that's the steam-winch, that is the thing wot we uses w'en we wants to hoist things out o 'the hold, or lower 'em into it."
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The mechanical advantage of a winch is the radius of the axle to the radius of the handspikes.
Energy Bulletin - kristinsponsler 2010
bilby commented on the word winch
Scots - to be romantically involved with someone; to kiss and cuddle. Possibly derived from wench.
December 26, 2007
yarb commented on the word winch
The Mammuthus, winched from the permafrost...
- Peter Reading, Finds, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008