winch up the slack line. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
With a long remote cord, you can also operate the winch from the cab if necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Winching How-To: Never Get Your Truck Stuck Again] Reference
Reduced to essentials, an electric winch is a motorized drum that unspools and spools a length of heavy-duty wire rope. From Wordnik.com. [Winching How-To: Never Get Your Truck Stuck Again] Reference
A winch is an absolute must, a missionary friend of mine uses an atv to hunt and he says he uses his winch almost every time he goes out. From Wordnik.com. [I'm 63 and always walked into most areas I've hunted over the years, with pack, guns, tree stands and misc. other gear.] Reference
A winch is a tremendous aid with a four-wheel drive. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
I'd love to say it belongs to a catapult but the winch is a bit big. From Wordnik.com. [Neatorama] Reference
The mechanical advantage of a winch is the radius of the axle to the radius of the handspikes. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
OBAMA '08 (and although she's a habitual liar I'll vote for Hillary if the winch is in the general. From Wordnik.com. [Obama picks up superdelegate] Reference
“Badoure”; we to “Badoura.” winch is worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The boom swung out and the drum of the winch began unrolling. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope] Reference
The winch and wheel fenders were added by the tractor's owners. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
The angler thereupon cut it at the winch and the line was recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
A Salmon winch should be capable of holding from 50 to 80 yards of line. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
Here was the winch, after much service, accounting for a grilse in Norway!. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
We rowed to the ship and the line was carried aboard and tagged onto a winch. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
A light winch that will hold from 25 to 35 yards of line is sufficient for Trout. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
The men had all they could do to get the boat to land and winch in the two loose lines. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
He uses a hand winch to roll up the shade covering the six-and-a-half-meter telescope mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Stars: A Telescope Operator's Night] Reference
In the circle in winch he moved, he was the friend of everybody and everybody was his friend. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
After running across the strong stream the fish moderated speed, and the winch could be worked. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
After an hour of swish, swish, without touch from a fish, the scream of a winch is like hymns in the night. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The driver was moved along and rotated when necessary by ropes passing around the winch head of the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
All at once you are startled by that inspiring cry of the winch which some faddy people pretend to think a nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
By turning the winch handle the mast is extended, and can be carried to any height up to a maximum of about 100 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
At the first slackening of speed, however, it is always wise to put on a little pressure, and cautiously begin with the winch. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The former was not enough to rattle off the stone from the loop of line; the latter ran out a yard and merely ticked the winch. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Possessed by an afterthought he, however, returned, struck another light, and examined the quantity of line left upon the winch. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The rod was jerked downwards almost to the water, the winch flew, and the line, run out at express speed, cut into my forefinger. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
"What did it quit working for?" ventured Billiard, testing the weather-stained rope still coiled about the winch above the shaft. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
"I have him," I said by way of assurance, and Ben realised that the whirring scream of the winch was not a mere private rehearsal. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The latter is then dropped overboard, the wire being paid out from a winch until it has descended to the level of the hostile craft. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The hull, superstructure, fore winch and capstan of Prometej are all original, while the gym and steam room are more recent additions. From Wordnik.com. [The VIP DIY Super-Yacht Club] Reference
The winch sang out, and I had the rod up and under mastery in the twinkling of an eye, with the fish running smartly and pulling hard. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The angler looked at his winch, which was nearly empty: he could see the barrel between the few coils of line left -- left of 120 yards. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Luckily the winch worked after a fashion when reeled in, and if the single gut at the end of the twisted cast would hold all might be well. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
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