winch
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6.6
- noun
- /wɪntʃ/
- Specialized
:
cabrestante
- Dick took a couple of turns around the winch and ground it as hard as he could.
- motorized winch
- winch system
And what, wait, what I did was just a series of of winches and the winches go out to the center and at a point there's we set a, a, a gantry.
- And what, wait, what I did was just a series of of winches and the winches go out to the center and at a point there's we set a, a, a gantry.
Examples
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The winch is stuck.
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Using a powerful winch, they pulled the stranded vehicle out of the mud.
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Get the winch up to the hole.
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All right, Jim, stop the winch.
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Grab a hold of that winch.
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If you two will stop yelling at me and get a winch, I'll help you pull it out.
Fiction book (2000) -
There's an electric winch on the front.
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A cable runs from the winch down to the Cherokee in the river.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mikey, get the winch.
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Smoothly, silently, a mechanical winch lowered the casket into its grave.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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9.6
A tool with a round drum turned by a handle that pulls a rope to lift heavy things
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Etymology
Winch originally named the tool that 'winds' rope on a drum and is related to the word wind ('to turn' or 'to twist'). That's why a winch is a machine that turns a drum to pull or lift heavy things.