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- verb Present participle of
winch .
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Examples
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Combining a long weekend of camping, caravanning and muddy entertainment, the LANDROVERmax! event at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, will include a parade of classic Land Rovers as well as demonstrations of skills such as winching and off-roading as well as stunt driving.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Notice also the short pine trees, they may be short but they have a strong root system for winching out!
Ice-Out by Ice Road: Fishing Backcountry Manitoba by ATV 2009
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Choose wisely, as winching can generate extreme mechanical forces; if the anchor breaks free -- well, to put it in the vernacular, all hell will break loose.
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Course he says he only got it for $400 so he ain't gonna be out that much if it falls through, Aside from the cost of winching it out, that is.
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They were attaching it to the crane used to move drill pipe, winching it down through the drill shaft to some lower point on the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Happily the only sign of an oppressive regime indoors is the one featuring the house rules, stating "No football shirts, no bams and no winching at the bar" for those unfamiliar with Glasgow slang, bams are undesirable-types and winching means snogging.
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* Place wheel blocks behind the tires when winching vehicle up an incline.
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Notice also the short pine trees, they may be short but they have a strong root system for winching out!
Ice-Out by Ice Road: Fishing Backcountry Manitoba by ATV 2009
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They were attaching it to the crane used to move drill pipe, winching it down through the drill shaft to some lower point on the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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They were attaching it to the crane used to move drill pipe, winching it down through the drill shaft to some lower point on the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
Piknik commented on the word winching
Winching (Scottish): to court, to date
April 27, 2012