winch

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

   Winch up the slack line.

Various origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived at a place where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Old English winċe (“winch”). * From the second part of Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), probably a nickname.

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