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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
winch .
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Examples
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So we got an all-volunteer Air Force chopper crew that flew over the battlefield, took a lot of fire, but "winched" them out.
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A salvage crew has been winched aboard during a calm weather in what may be the last desperate effort to limit the country's worst maritime environmental disaster.
New Zealand oil spill ship ripped open and 'could break up at any point' 2011
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On 15 September 1955, three marines and a civilian scientist from the Royal Navy's new survey ship HMS Vidal were winched from a helicopter on to a tiny, pyramid-shaped outcrop of granite sticking out of the Atlantic Ocean 240 miles west of the Orkneys.
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Devon and Cornwall police said he was winched up by a search and rescue helicopter and flown to Derriford hospital in Plymouth, where attempts to resuscitate him failed and he was pronounced dead.
Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones 2012
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Each of his 300 ewes will need a health "passport" to go on her high-altitude summer break and their shepherd, Mr. Sarres, will have his personal belongings winched down to a mountain hut by helicopter.
I Think, Therefore I Am Happy Lennox Morrison 2011
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For "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know", she clambers gingerly on to a swing and is winched several feet above ground like a shipping crate.
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At the far side of the windowless room was the large steel box Kate had described seeing winched down by the crane.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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At the start, they winched me out of bed in a sling.
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"The oil industry is moving away from helicopters for in-field operations because of safety concerns and, in any case, being winched on to the top of a 100m turbine in a gale is not an attractive proposition."
New offshore windfarm technologies in the battle against seasickness 2011
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At the far side of the windowless room was the large steel box Kate had described seeing winched down by the crane.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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