Dictionary Entry
winch
winch is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
- 2noun
A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
- 3noun
A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
- 4noun
An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A wince.
- 7noun
lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
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- 8verb
pull or lift up with or as if with a winch
"winch up the slack line"
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