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n. 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.

n. The crank used to give motion to a grindstone or similar device.

v. To move with or as if with a winch.

n. A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a pawl, and a crank handle, with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope.

n. A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501).

n. A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).

v. To use a winch

verb-intransitive. To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

n. A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.

n. A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.

n. An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.

n. 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.

n. A wince.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. The reel of a fishing-rod.

n. Same as wince.

To hoist or haul by means of a winch.

n. An obsolete or dialectal form of wince.

n. lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

v. pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

"* Disconnect the remote control when the winch is not in use."

winched    winches    winching   

draw    pull    force   

gipsy winch    steam-winch    spun-yarn winch   

wince    shrink    windlass   

Lynch    Minch    cinch    clinch    finch    flinch    grinch    hinch    inch    kinch   

windlass    pulley    crane    capstan    tackle    tractor    saw    brake    anchor    boiler