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use a winch:

Meaning

5 senses

  1. To use a winch

    Winch in those sails, lad!

    winden

    поднима́ть с по́мощью лебёдкиpodnimátʹ s pómoščʹju lebjódki

  2. To wince; to shrink

  3. To kick with impatience or uneasiness.

More meanings 2

  1. (Scotland, ambitransitive, colloquial)To court

  2. (Scotland, ambitransitive, colloquial)To kiss, snog

More definitions
  • pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

Origin

From Middle English wynche, from Old English winċe, from Proto-Germanic *winkijǭ, ultimate

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.

Variant form of wench.

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Forms

winches, winching, winched, winched

regular · Lesson

Base formwinch · to winch
3rd person singularwinches
Present participlewinching
Past simplewinched
Past participlewinched

Tenses

winch · winched · will winch · have winched

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywinch
he, she, itwinches

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave winched
he, she, ithas winched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill winch

Past simpleLesson

all personswinched

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
winA1wincewindA1

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