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Meanings of winch in anglès

rus
лебёдка
portuguès
molinete
català
gigre
espanyol
chigre
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Device used to pull in or let out a rope or cable.

        Related terms
        gigre
        portuguès
        catraca
        català
        torn
        espanyol
        torno

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

              torn
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              Examples for "winches"
              Examples for "winches"
              1
              The bows lifted, and starting the winches, they hauled aft the ropes.
              Lister's Great Adventure
              2
              Facebook Twitter Pinterest Girt Kraulis winches the catch into the fish hatch.
              The Guardian
              3
              Wherefore cousin fitted them out with rods, winches, lines, casts, and flies.
              Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
              4
              The winches are still groaning along the docks; cabs roll through the streets.
              Shallow Soil
              5
              Its Other business includes the manufacturing and marketing of industrial winches.
              Reuters
              Usage of winch in anglès
              1
              The boom swung out and the drum of the winch began unrolling.
              Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope
              2
              Moments later two rather large bundles were lowered via a portable winch.
              The bourne objective
              3
              Perhaps they had set fire to the winch or the smelting shed?
              Empire in black and gold
              4
              He left the engine idling to run the winch and the hoist.
              Under the dome: a novel
              5
              Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops.
              Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
              6
              The men escorted her from the winch room up a spiral stair.
              A Game of Thrones
              7
              The helicopter service was axed as there were too few winch-trained firefighters.
              BBC
              8
              The next winch delivered Maddy and Gretchel, who rode with Mya Stone.
              A feast for crows
              9
              There's one of some leaping dolphins, another of me at the winch.
              Kensuke’s Kingdom
              10
              A winch lowered him smoothly to the ground, beside the rocky outcrop.
              The Long Earth
              11
              He clipped himself into the belay and detached from the winch cable.
              Climbing Magazine
              12
              Throw on your winch brakes, ordered Tesla, studying his dials for depth.
              The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory, U.S....
              13
              The winch reeled back in, and Sanya stepped up to the door.
              Death masks
              14
              He had the halyard taut and was throwing it on the winch.
              The sailcloth shroud
              15
              The angler thereupon cut it at the winch and the line was recovered.
              Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
              16
              The net was still feeding swiftly over the side, the winch spinning free.
              Cry for the strangers
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              Translations for winch
              portuguès
              molinetecatraca
              català
              gigretorn
              Winch through the time
              Winch across language varieties
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              Common