winch

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• IPA^(key): /wɪnt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪntʃ

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.

winch (plural winches)

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1. A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
2. (nautical) A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 267:

     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.

3. A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
4. A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. , London: William Stansby, for Ed Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     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

5. (Nigeria, slang) A witch.

• Tok Pisin: winis
• → Arabic: وِنْش (winš)
• → Japanese: ウインチ (uinchi)
• → Korean: 원치 (wonchi)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: vinsj
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: vinsj
• → Serbo-Croatian: vȉnč
• → Swahili: winchi
• → Swedish: vinsch
• → Ottoman Turkish: وینچ (vinç)
  • Turkish: vinç

winch (third-person singular simple present winches, present participle winching, simple past and past participle winched)

1. To use a winch

   Winch in those sails, lad!

See wince.

winch (third-person singular simple present winches, present participle winching, simple past and past participle winched)

1. To wince; to shrink
   • 1812, Joanna Baillie, The Dream, part Act 1:

     It is not the first time a cat-o'-nine-tails has been across my back for other men's misdeeds. Promise me a good flask of brandy when I'm done with it, and I warrant ye I'll never winch.

2. To kick with impatience or uneasiness.

Variant form of wench.

winch (third-person singular simple present winches, present participle winching, simple past and past participle winched)

1. (Scotland, colloquial, transitive, intransitive) to court
   • 1935, Lennox Kerr, Woman of Glenshiels:

     They “clicked” each other, kidded each other, and by and by they would “winch” and marry each other.

   • 2020, Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain, page 59:

     It was common knowledge that he'd winched dozens of girls while she had been sharing a bedroom with her two brothers.

2. (Scotland, colloquial, transitive, intransitive) to snog
   • 1998, Alan Spence, Way to go, page 61:

     She turned and looked at me, amused, gave a wee chuckle, kissed me on the mouth hard and quick, and again, and we were kissing for real, lingering, soft and moist and warm, me and Jeannie winching, and I wanted it not to stop.

   • 2020, Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain, page 58:

     Up at the cinema Campbell Cameron had been all slithering hands, like a dirty octopus. Even his tenderest winching had felt entitled and demanding.

winch m (plural winchs)

1. (nautical) winch

• “winch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.