I've never used a winch before. Could you show me how?
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Winch
//wɪnt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "winch" (14 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 42 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- argano noun (machine)
Arabic
1 entries- مِلْفَاف noun (machine)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лебе́дка noun (machine)
- макара noun (machine)
Catalan
2 entries- cabrestant noun (machine)
- gigre noun (machine)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 絞盤 /绞盘 noun (machine)
- 絞車 /绞车 noun (machine)
Czech
1 entries- naviják noun (machine)
Danish
2 entries- spil noun (machine)
- trækspil noun (machine)
Dutch
2 entries- lier noun (machine)
- windas noun (machine)
Esperanto
1 entries- vinĉo noun (machine)
Estonian
3 entries- vints noun (machine)
- vinnama verb (use a winch)
- vintsima verb (use a winch)
Finnish
3 entries- vinssi noun (machine)
- vintturi noun (machine)
- vinssata verb (use a winch)
French
2 entries- treuil noun (machine)
- treuiller verb (use a winch)
Galician
3 entries- guincho noun (machine)
- guindastre noun (machine)
- torno noun (machine)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯალამბარი noun (machine)
German
3 entries- Winde noun (machine)
- Winsch noun (machine)
- winden verb (use a winch)
Hungarian
1 entries- csörlő noun (machine)
Icelandic
2 entries- vinda noun (machine)
- vinda verb (use a winch)
Italian
4 entries- argano noun (machine)
- bozzello noun (machine)
- salpareti noun (machine)
- verricello noun (machine)
Japanese
1 entries- ウインチ noun (machine)
Kazakh
1 entries- шығыр noun (machine)
Korean
1 entries- 원치 noun (machine)
Latgalian
1 entries- svērte noun (machine)
Latin
1 entries- sucula noun (machine)
Latvian
1 entries- vinda noun (machine)
Macedonian
2 entries- ди́галка noun (machine)
- че́крек noun (machine)
Māori
1 entries- huritaura noun (machine)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- vinsj noun (machine)
- vinsje verb (use a winch)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vinsj noun (machine)
Old English
1 entries- wince noun (machine)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- ارغات noun (machine)
- بوجرغات noun (machine)
- چقرق noun (machine)
Polish
2 entries- kołowrót noun (machine)
- wciągarka noun (machine)
Portuguese
1 entries- molinete noun (machine)
Russian
3 entries- во́рот noun (machine)
- лебёдка noun (machine)
- поднима́ть с по́мощью лебёдки verb (use a winch)
Slovak
2 entries- navijak noun (machine)
- rumpál noun (machine)
Slovene
2 entries- vitel noun (machine)
- dvigovati verb (use a winch)
Spanish
4 entries- argue (disused) noun (machine)
- argüe (disused) noun (machine)
- cabestrante noun (machine)
- cabrestante noun (machine)
Swahili
1 entries- winchi noun (machine)
Swedish
2 entries- vinsch noun (machine)
- vinscha verb (use a winch)
Tagalog
1 entries- biling-bilingan noun (machine)
Turkish
2 entries- vinç noun (machine)
- ırgat noun (machine)
Welsh
3 entries- dirwynlath noun (machine)
- winsh noun (machine)
- winsio verb (use a winch)
Zazaki
1 entries- vinç noun (machine)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I've never used a winch before.
Source: tatoeba (6350288)
Tom was so heavy in full armour that he had to be hoisted into his horse's saddle by a winch. No sooner had the ropes been withdrawn than the animal collapsed under his weight.
Source: tatoeba (8933078)
The five-and-a-half-meter-diameter balloon is tethered with a winch cable to an airport pickup truck.
Source: tatoeba (11305462)
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