winch

A stationary motor-driven or hand-powered machine used for hoisting or hauling, having a drum around which is wound a rope or chain attached to the load being moved.

The crank used to give motion to a grindstone or similar device.

To move with or as if with a winch.

To hoist or haul by means of a winch.

An obsolete or dialectal form of wince.

The crank, projecting handle, or lever by which the axis of a revolving machine is turned, as in the common windlass, the grindstone, etc. See cut under Prony’s dynamometer.

A kind of hoisting-machine or windlass, in which an axis is turned by means of a crank-handle, and a rope or chain is thus wound round it so as to raise a weight.

The reel of a fishing-rod.

Same as wince.

To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.