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Meanings of winches in английском
Usage of winches in английском
1
The bows lifted, and starting the winches, they hauled aft the ropes.
2
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Girt Kraulis winches the catch into the fish hatch.
3
Wherefore cousin fitted them out with rods, winches, lines, casts, and flies.
4
The winches are still groaning along the docks; cabs roll through the streets.
5
Its Other business includes the manufacturing and marketing of industrial winches.
6
The squeal of grinding winches lifted the draw after they'd passed.
7
She remembered what her uncle had said of baskets and winches.
8
They ran aft through fairleads to winches at the forward end of the cockpit.
9
All the time I could hear the steamer's winches at work hoisting and lowering.
10
Not that anybody knew, or cared, what "rigging the winches aft" meant.
11
Only the winches rattle; they shatter the air with their cheerful noise this bright morning.
12
Through the roar of the winches she heard coarse shouts and the bellowing of cattle.
13
He heard distinctly the creaking of winches, and knew that the boats were being lowered.
14
We give an illustration of one of these winches.
15
They die of falling rocks and winches and icicles.
16
No such luxuries were there as steam-winches; not any of those modern appliances for lightening labour.
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