(noun.) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds.
(verb.) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch; 'winch up the slack line'.
弗洛整理
双语例句
The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
K K, Steam Winches for working moorings and shifting position of the barge. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
If those eyes of yours were bed-winches, returned Miss Pross, and I was an English four-poster, they shouldn't loose a splinter of me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.