winching in English
verb
1
hoist or haul with a winch.
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.
Use "winching" in a sentence
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1. Multi-strand, flexible, steel cable is particularly suited to winching because it does not kink so easily.
2. ‘The space round the anchor Capstans is interesting; it looks as if it was designed for a gang of sailors to work the capstan by hand if the powered mechanism should fail.’ ‘The pirates instantly began winching the cable in with a capstan.’