Definition of winch in English:
winch
noun wɪn(t)ʃwɪn(t)ʃ
1A hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope or chain winding round a horizontal rotating drum, turned typically by a crank or by motor.
绞车，卷扬机；辘轳- To haul one of his traps, Glen uses a gaff to grab its buoy, then wraps the attached rope around a hydraulic winch that brings the trap from its resting place, typically in two to six fathoms of water, to boat-side.
- Ropes and pulleys and an electric winch were used for the job.
- The company, which has divisions in the Blue Toon, Aberdeen and Old Deer, makes hydraulic equipment such as winches and cranes, for the fishing and offshore industries.
- It has neat navigational aids, polished winches, ropes a-plenty, exciting pump-action loos and a limitless supply of biscuits.
- Recovery operations are carried out using two Rotzler hydraulic winches and a hydraulically operated crane.
- They do the work of motorized winches - haul logs, or move stuck tractors, raise towers, and so on - but with the deftness of a human hand.
- The cage was lowered by winch and wire rope to a depth of 5m, just deep enough to escape the surface surge and swell.
- The para-dropping and cargo handling equipment comprises two travelling cranes, two winches, rollgang and tiedown equipment.
- The evil ones quickly pulled it tight and then attached a large bag on a winch to the ropes and then pulled the bag over the castle wall.
- The raised forecastle has all the normal anchor handling gear as well as a huge single winch used for hauling loads out of the fish hold.
- Perched at the stern, where she is manning one of the winches used to crank the ropes that control the main sails, Souka looks uneasy.
- Mark grabs it and attaches it to the winch as Gerry starts the winch motor.
- The anchor winch has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck.
- North Yorkshire Fire and rescue crews released Mr Brader using specialist winches and airbags to lift up the tractor.
- Lucia was going to need a winch to haul me around everyday.
- But remember, all those ropes and winches and seafaring clutter have an important function, and the crew will certainly need to be able to get to them (sometimes in a hurry).
- We came out through a hatch onto the stern deck, next to the main winch from which ropes and netting seemed to disappear in all directions.
- Driving down hill was the most dangerous, so shoes were fitted to the wheels and a wire rope attached to a winch on the engine was sometimes used to control movement on a steep gradient.
- I'd say it was an ex-fishing boat because it's got a drum winch on the front.
- Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor winch, chains and anchors.
crane, derrick, hoist, davit, windlass, tackle, block and tackle, lifting gear, hoisting gear, system of pulleys, sheaveNautical sheerlegs- 1.1British The reel of a fishing rod.〈英〉（钓竿上的）钓丝螺旋轮
- The winch could simply be a large fishing reel with some pretty small towline (or large fishing line - depending upon your point of view).
- Look at any fly rod and you will see that the screw winch fitting is at the very end of the rod.
- 1.2another term for wince
- Did anyone else grab their ears and winch in pain when Kevin began to sing on Monday's show?
- Sasuke took out the kunai knife, expecting Ayame to winch in pain, but she didn't. She was still.
2The crank of a wheel or axle.
摇柄，曲柄- My primary role on the boat is called a ‘grinder’, and I provide power for the winches [the circular wheels which wind the boat's sails up and down].
- The vessel to be fitted with winches, derricks, wheels and ordinary runners capable of handling lifts up to 2 tons.
verb wɪn(t)ʃwɪn(t)ʃ
[with object]Hoist or haul with a winch.
用绞车拉；用卷扬机吊；用辘轳绞an attempt to winch survivors of the wreck into a helicopter- A yellow banner is being winched into position.
- Dramatic television footage showed rescue workers winching the nine survivors one-by-one from the roof of the restaurant as flames and smoke poured from the upper floors of the building in Taichung City in central Taiwan.
- The frightened but brave ten-year-old held on before he was winched to safety shortly after 7 pm last Tuesday evening.
- Along with the chopper crew, the team practiced stretcher loading, winching a casualty into the aircraft and landing zone safety.
- One elderly woman was winched from Hawnby, which was cut off, after suffering a suspected heart attack and was flown to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
- Instead, an RAF rescue helicopter was scrambled from Chivenor in Devon and she was winched up from the beach and flown to Withybush hospital.
- While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land.
- Indian papers have been publishing pictures of women being winched to the bottom of wells to scoop up muddy liquid from what looks like puddles.
- Sometimes it will be plucking shivering, shocked survivors from a sunken vessel out of lift rafts, from the sea or winching the crew off a vessel that is going to go down.
- Just a few hundred yards down the road, workmen are busily winching the last of the mangled passenger carriages off the tracks at the site of North Yorkshire's worst rail disaster.
- Instead the 30-year-old woman from Whitby had to be airlifted to hospital by a team from RAF Leconfield who winched her to safety.
- They were scrambled and reached the semi-conscious walker within minutes of the accident, and he was winched into the helicopter strapped in a special stretcher.
- At 7.30 pm, Crewman Walters requested a rescue helicopter to help the fourth person and the lifeboat provided cover while this person was winched to safety.
- Having botched the attempt, and learnt Cleopatra was still alive, he is supposed to have been carried to the mausoleum and winched by the women up through a window to expire after a fine speech in his lover's arms.
- Three people had to be winched to safety by helicopter and two more had to abandon their car after it got stuck in sand in a busy weekend for the water rescue services in Sligo Bay.
- The inexperienced sailors were winched to safety.
- I wish she had seen the elderly nursing home residents being winched off rooftops on to a helicopter, wrapping sheets around their heads as they were too scared to look down.
- Two canoeists from Galway city had a lucky escape on Lough Corrib yesterday when a helicopter winched them to safety after they took shelter on one of the lake's islands.
- As fire tenders moved to different angles as the flames spread, small black hoses had to be winched manually, a time consuming process.
- This was a superb demonstration of the RAF pilot's skill, holding a large helicopter in a hover next to a cliff face in the dark while winching the casualty on board.
raise, hoist, heave, haul up, uplift, heft, boost, raise aloft, raise up, upraise, elevate, thrust, hold high, bear aloft
Derivatives
wincher
- Wire rope is still the best choice for some winchers.
- I find the wincher a complete inconvenience as a sheet winch, but as a halyard winch it's somewhat functional.
- I used a set of winchers for over 10 years.
- Lastly, on Gitana X, Alex Marmorat is devoting himself to the construction of his Mini Transat, so Arnaud de Boringer is to replace him as wincher.
- I'm trying to order a couple of sets of winchers and can't seem to find anyone who has them.
noun
Origin
Late Old English wince 'reel, pulley', of Germanic origin; related to the verb wink. The verb dates from the early 16th century.
Rhymes
cinch, clinch, finch, flinch, inch, lynch, Minch, pinch, squinch
Definition of winch in US English:
winch
nounwɪn(t)ʃwin(t)SH
1A hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope, cable, or chain winding around a horizontal rotating drum, turned by a crank or by motor or other power source; a windlass.
绞车，卷扬机；辘轳- They do the work of motorized winches - haul logs, or move stuck tractors, raise towers, and so on - but with the deftness of a human hand.
- Perched at the stern, where she is manning one of the winches used to crank the ropes that control the main sails, Souka looks uneasy.
- The anchor winch has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck.
- We came out through a hatch onto the stern deck, next to the main winch from which ropes and netting seemed to disappear in all directions.
- The para-dropping and cargo handling equipment comprises two travelling cranes, two winches, rollgang and tiedown equipment.
- I'd say it was an ex-fishing boat because it's got a drum winch on the front.
- Recovery operations are carried out using two Rotzler hydraulic winches and a hydraulically operated crane.
- But remember, all those ropes and winches and seafaring clutter have an important function, and the crew will certainly need to be able to get to them (sometimes in a hurry).
- The raised forecastle has all the normal anchor handling gear as well as a huge single winch used for hauling loads out of the fish hold.
- It has neat navigational aids, polished winches, ropes a-plenty, exciting pump-action loos and a limitless supply of biscuits.
- To haul one of his traps, Glen uses a gaff to grab its buoy, then wraps the attached rope around a hydraulic winch that brings the trap from its resting place, typically in two to six fathoms of water, to boat-side.
- Mark grabs it and attaches it to the winch as Gerry starts the winch motor.
- North Yorkshire Fire and rescue crews released Mr Brader using specialist winches and airbags to lift up the tractor.
- The company, which has divisions in the Blue Toon, Aberdeen and Old Deer, makes hydraulic equipment such as winches and cranes, for the fishing and offshore industries.
- Driving down hill was the most dangerous, so shoes were fitted to the wheels and a wire rope attached to a winch on the engine was sometimes used to control movement on a steep gradient.
- Ropes and pulleys and an electric winch were used for the job.
- Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor winch, chains and anchors.
- Lucia was going to need a winch to haul me around everyday.
- The cage was lowered by winch and wire rope to a depth of 5m, just deep enough to escape the surface surge and swell.
- The evil ones quickly pulled it tight and then attached a large bag on a winch to the ropes and then pulled the bag over the castle wall.
crane, derrick, hoist, davit, windlass, tackle, block and tackle, lifting gear, hoisting gear, system of pulleys, sheave2The crank of a wheel or axle.
摇柄，曲柄- My primary role on the boat is called a ‘grinder’, and I provide power for the winches [the circular wheels which wind the boat's sails up and down].
- The vessel to be fitted with winches, derricks, wheels and ordinary runners capable of handling lifts up to 2 tons.
verbwɪn(t)ʃwin(t)SH
[with object]Hoist or haul with a winch.
用绞车拉；用卷扬机吊；用辘轳绞an attempt to winch survivors of the wreck into a helicopter- Sometimes it will be plucking shivering, shocked survivors from a sunken vessel out of lift rafts, from the sea or winching the crew off a vessel that is going to go down.
- Dramatic television footage showed rescue workers winching the nine survivors one-by-one from the roof of the restaurant as flames and smoke poured from the upper floors of the building in Taichung City in central Taiwan.
- A yellow banner is being winched into position.
- The frightened but brave ten-year-old held on before he was winched to safety shortly after 7 pm last Tuesday evening.
- Having botched the attempt, and learnt Cleopatra was still alive, he is supposed to have been carried to the mausoleum and winched by the women up through a window to expire after a fine speech in his lover's arms.
- Two canoeists from Galway city had a lucky escape on Lough Corrib yesterday when a helicopter winched them to safety after they took shelter on one of the lake's islands.
- One elderly woman was winched from Hawnby, which was cut off, after suffering a suspected heart attack and was flown to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
- At 7.30 pm, Crewman Walters requested a rescue helicopter to help the fourth person and the lifeboat provided cover while this person was winched to safety.
- Instead, an RAF rescue helicopter was scrambled from Chivenor in Devon and she was winched up from the beach and flown to Withybush hospital.
- As fire tenders moved to different angles as the flames spread, small black hoses had to be winched manually, a time consuming process.
- I wish she had seen the elderly nursing home residents being winched off rooftops on to a helicopter, wrapping sheets around their heads as they were too scared to look down.
- They were scrambled and reached the semi-conscious walker within minutes of the accident, and he was winched into the helicopter strapped in a special stretcher.
- Instead the 30-year-old woman from Whitby had to be airlifted to hospital by a team from RAF Leconfield who winched her to safety.
- Three people had to be winched to safety by helicopter and two more had to abandon their car after it got stuck in sand in a busy weekend for the water rescue services in Sligo Bay.
- While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land.
- The inexperienced sailors were winched to safety.
- This was a superb demonstration of the RAF pilot's skill, holding a large helicopter in a hover next to a cliff face in the dark while winching the casualty on board.
- Indian papers have been publishing pictures of women being winched to the bottom of wells to scoop up muddy liquid from what looks like puddles.
- Along with the chopper crew, the team practiced stretcher loading, winching a casualty into the aircraft and landing zone safety.
- Just a few hundred yards down the road, workmen are busily winching the last of the mangled passenger carriages off the tracks at the site of North Yorkshire's worst rail disaster.
raise, hoist, heave, haul up, uplift, heft, boost, raise aloft, raise up, upraise, elevate, thrust, hold high, bear aloft
Origin
Late Old English wince ‘reel, pulley’, of Germanic origin; related to the verb wink. The verb dates from the early 16th century.