noun. 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.

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

transitive verb. To move with or as if with a winch.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. The reel of a fishing-rod.

noun. Same as wince.

noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of wince.

To hoist or haul by means of a winch.

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. A wince.

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

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

noun. 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.

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

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

verb. To use a winch

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

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

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

gipsy winch  spun-yarn winch  steam-winch  

draw  force  pull  

Lynch  Minch  cinch  clinch  finch  

anchor  boiler  brake  cable  capstan  

shrink  wince  windlass  

winched  winches  winching