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

1. intransitive verb. To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
2. noun. A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
3. noun. A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
4. noun. An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A wince.
7. noun. lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

   Synonyms: windlass

8. verb. pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

   "winch up the slack line"

Synonyms

windlass

Common word forms

winched, wincher, winches, winching

Words from these letters

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