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Hoisting device
Answer for the clue "Hoisting device ", 5 letters:
winch
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Word definitions for winch in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Clayt slipped on insulated gloves and leaned over and grabbed a blue flag and looped its rope to a winch . ▪ Hanging from hooks on the wall were sets of wire-pulling devices, complete with chain winch and gripper. ▪ He folded ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to hoist with a winch," 1520s, from winch (n.). Related: Winched ; winching .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winch \Winch\, n. A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness. --Shelton.
Usage examples of winch.
When Alayne returned to the winch room, she found Mya Stone waiting impatiently with Lothor Brunc and Morel.
Guil told what he knew: a whack in the head from a winch cable, a partner dead, Gerry Harper going off from Ancel in a fit of rage, the Harper brothers not dealing with each other any more for years.
In one pass, a fine-mesh fyke net with a motorized winch can pull in nine to fifteen hundred kilos.
Cantering back to that home of the loves of Gower Woodseer and Madge Winch, the thought of his first act of penance done, without his feeling the poorer for it, reconciled Fleetwood to the aspect of the hollow place.
Charl, a stout, somewhat hirsute sailor from the far northwest, managed to use a long pole to snag the cable hanging below the locked winch mechanism.
To get at them, one would have to unload the ship entirely, pump out the unspeakable contents of the bilge, shovel out tons of shingle, and winch up the massive pigs of kentledge, one by one.
With a mighty clang, the anchor was loosed, enormous links of chain rattling through the winch.
Winch and Pian, a couple deadpan, stocky guys, cleared the room of the reporters.
As Ethan worked with Sunil and the cook to winch it back to the bank, two shikaras, making their frantic way back across the lake, had been knocked flat by a further gust.
Guards stamped their feet, engineers stood in animated discussion by the winch engine and a caravan shack disgorged another shift of stackers fresh from a break.
Apart from the suicides, winch involved little or no investigation, the hottest case going lately was The West Side Weenie Wagger, a white male, mid-thirties, who got his kicks displaying his penis to sixth-grade girls on their way home from summer vacation Bible school.
Of course it was possible that he might do so, and come into possession of the Bellevite, winch had outsailed him, and disabled his ship for a combat at longer range.
Reasoning that the obvious was often the most innocuous, they had flashed a wad of bills and their NUMA IDs and persuaded the owner of the parasail and the winch boat to spare his equipment for a few hours.
Like almost every building in Bekla it was of stone, its long rows of recessed bays cool and dusky, the whole place echoing whenever a door slammed or a crate was grounded by the winch.
Winch and Hawley Bardwell assumed the stance he had been drilled in and then redrilled in, and redrilled in.