0 a machine that lifts heavy objects by turning a chain or rope around a tube-shaped device: --
1 to lift a heavy object by turning a chain or rope around a tube-shaped device: --
Two helicopters winched the passengers to safety from the deck of the ship.
2 a machine that lifts heavy objects by turning a chain or rope around a tube-shaped device --
One of the great engineering firms that repaired ships and manufactured winches was due to go out of business.
In the first place it deals with the question of terminology, winch has given rise to a good deal of confusion.
I also want to reply to one of the accusations winch was made against our party.
They have proved what can be done in areas winch formerly supported only wild beasts and a few nomadic tribesmen with poor, under-fed flocks.
These balloon barrage winches can launch a glider on flat country to heights which it could never attain from even the best of hillsides.
There ropes are not held in the hand, but on a winch, which is then wound.
Sometimes, there are devious warp winches and warps are poorly maintained.
It is true that there are winches to be worked, and that retrieving motor cars are sometimes used for bringing in gliders from considerable distances.
