Winch is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WINCH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to raise with a hoist
• hoist or haul with a winch
• To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
• pull or lift up with or as if with a winch
• lift or haul using a winch
NOUN:
• a hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope or chain winding round a horizontal rotating drum, turned typically by a crank or by motor.
• the reel of a fishing rod.
• the crank of a wheel or axle.
• machine for lifting or hauling using a cable or chain wound round a drum
• A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
• A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
• An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
• 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.
• A wince.
• lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to raise with a winch (a hoisting machine)

Words related to WINCH

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Words that contain WINCH

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How to use WINCH in a sentence

• A great rope rose out of the water as the men at the winch hauled up the clumsy hulk.
• I let go of the winch, and struck out madly, trying to hold my breath.
• Tom North, his little black pipe between his teeth, stood calm, the lever of his winch in his hand.
• Once Captain Marsh was found up to his waist in water, himself felling the trees of a wood, and dragging them to the river by a cable attached to the winch of his tug.
• About the middle of the afternoon, Adam stood near the noisy winch while a case was hoisted.
• It was now night, and a mist had gathered over the arch above, winch hid the stars, and rendered it quite dark.
• The motion of the piston-rod backwards and forwards turns such a winch.
• He would have preferred to settle the Winch business out of hand, but Mr.
• Many of the incidents winch I shall be obliged to describe are known only to the actors therein, who, I feel assured, will never foolishly betray themselves.
• His companions now availed themselves of his foibles, winch they drew out into more distinct relief.
• The winch was old, and the strain of the jumping head sea was too much for it.
• The Professor was paying out the wire to which his kite was attached from a winch on which it had been rolled into a perfectly spherical form.
• John Winch heard it, just as the dog met the charging party.
• Seth grinned, and Jack Winch rubbed his hands with delight.
• Was Jack Winch another of the sort? It was pitiful to see him attempt to load his piece.
• The company had advanced, driving the rebel skirmishers before them, and leaving Winch where he had fallen.
• It was, indeed, impossible that that system could long subsist under the perpetual revolutions to winch landed property is every where subject.
• He thoroughly enjoyed their jokes and superstitions with winch many of their quaint stories were intermingled.
• Even for trimming sheets or setting topsails, it was necessary merely to take a turn or two around the drum of the winch engine and turn the steam valve.
• He muttered, however, that the winch was on such and such a side, and, with his head in the stairway, indicated the direction with his hand.
• That done, the winch would fly round, and the huge machine fall by its own weight.
• Others set up two posts, each with a hole in it, and insert a winch, along with old greasy rags, in the holes.
• The winch, K, is keyed to one of the extremities of a sleeve that carries the disk, P, at its other extremity.
• Opposition and resistance to the civil authorities, is one of the many corruptions winch have crept into the church of Christ.
• The axe and shovel and hand lever have given place to gunpowder, the donkey engine, derrick and winch.
• We are guided by ideals for the future, by purposes winch we clearly set before ourselves, in a way which is impossible to the brutes.

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