Definitions
pull or lift up with or as if with a winch
Word origin
From Middle English wynche, from Old English winċe, from Proto-Germanic *winkijǭ, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), whence also wink.
Used in a sentence
“It runs on clattering steel tracks; the driver sits in a cab over the tracks, operating the controls that rotate the arm and turn the winch.”
“the mule[…]being likewise frighted by that terrible blow, ran away as fast as it could about the fields, and within two or three winches overthrew him to the ground”
“Winch in those sails, lad!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Hoist device”5 letters
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