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Particularly nasty boys at my school in Charleston, West Virginia are always going around calling girls winches, A winch is ugly, stupid, bitchy, person who has enough guts to stand up to any boys when they're bugging her. This is not a cuss. (ed: added verbatim)
A large winch with a vertical axis. In the days of sail, a full-sized human-powered capstan was a waist-high cylindrical machine, operated by a number of hands who each insert a horizontal capstan bar in holes in the capstan and walk in a circle. Used to wind in anchors or other heavy objects; and sometimes to administer flogging over.
A winch mechanism, usually with a horizontal axis. Used where mechanical advantage greater than that obtainable by block and tackle is needed. ie. raising the anchor.
Verb. To court, to date. [Scottish use]
Noun. Courting, dating. [Scottish use]
Grinder is slang for a sandwich served on an Italian roll.Grinder is British slang for a sportsman who wears down his opponents by relentless pressure.Grinder is nautical slang for a winch that controls the sails of a sailboat.Grinder is surfing slang for a large wave.
NATO codeword meaning "out of ammunition".
Wink is Dorset slang for to wind. Wink is Dorset slang for to winch.Wink is Dorset slang for a motor vehicle starter handle.
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A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
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A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.
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A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
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A wince.
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A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
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An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
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A measure of two Winchester bushels.
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A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
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A kind of hoisting winch.
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An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
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A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
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To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
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A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
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A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
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An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
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Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
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A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
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