winch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.
    — 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.
    — 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. A witch. Nigeria,slang
动词 v.
  1. To use a winch
    — Winch in those sails, lad!
  2. To wince; to shrink
    — 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.
  3. to court Scotland,ambitransitive,colloquial
    — They “clicked” each other, kidded each other, and by and by they would “winch” and marry each other.
  4. To kick with impatience or uneasiness.
  5. to kiss, snog Scotland,ambitransitive,colloquial
    — 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.

词形变化

winches plural winches present,singular,third-person winching participle,present winched participle,past winched past winches present,singular,third-person winching participle,present winched participle,past winched past winches present,singular,third-person winching participle,present winched participle,past winched past

词汇关系

衍生词
rope winch winch handle

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
See wince.
词源 3
Variant form of wench.
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