winch
వించ్
definition
verb
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.
hoist or haul with a winch.
noun
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.
a 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.
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 crank of a wheel or axle.
example
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.
The anchor 'winch' has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck.
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.
The cage was lowered by 'winch' and wire rope to a depth of 5m, just deep enough to escape the surface surge and swell.
Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor 'winch' , chains and anchors.
Mark grabs it and attaches it to the winch as Gerry starts the 'winch' motor.
Ropes and pulleys and an electric 'winch' were used for the job.
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.
I'd say it was an ex-fishing boat because it's got a drum 'winch' on the front.
an attempt to 'winch' survivors of the wreck into a helicopter
Lucia was going to need a 'winch' to haul me around everyday.
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.
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.
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.
The vessel to be fitted with 'winches' , derricks, wheels and ordinary runners capable of handling lifts up to 2 tons.
Wire rope is still the best choice for some 'winchers' .
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.
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.
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' .
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.
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.
Along with the chopper crew, the team practiced stretcher loading, 'winching' a casualty into the aircraft and landing zone safety.
A yellow banner is being 'winched' into position.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm trying to order a couple of sets of 'winchers' and can't seem to find anyone who has them.
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.
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