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What (who) is piling winch - definition
BRITISH PHILOSOPHER (1926-1997)
P. G. Winch; Winch, Peter
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winch
 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Glider winch. Winch spool can be seen on the side of the truck, while cables to the right of the image are attached to the glider(s) being launched")
![[[RCAF]] [[CH-149 Cormorant]] rescue helicopter, with rescue team on winch](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EHI CH-149 Cormorant (EH-101 Mk511), Canada - Air Force AN0681528.jpg?width=200 "[[RCAF]] [[CH-149 Cormorant]] rescue helicopter, with rescue team on winch")
![MAN]]-based [[fire engine]] with a built-in winch, e.g. for towing damaged cars after an accident](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Front of a MAN fire engine with winch and shackles.jpg?width=200 "MAN]]-based [[fire engine]] with a built-in winch, e.g. for towing damaged cars after an accident")
DEVICE USED TO PULL IN OR LET OUT A ROPE OR CABLE
Winches; Tirfor; Griphoist; Power winch; Self tailing winch; Winch motor
(winches, winching, winched)
1.
A winch is a machine which is used to lift heavy objects or people who need to be rescued. It consists of a drum around which a rope or chain is wound.
N-COUNT
2.
If you winch an object or person somewhere, you lift or lower them using a winch.
He would attach a cable around the chassis of the car and winch it up on to the canal bank...
VERB: V n with adv/prep
Winch
DEVICE USED TO PULL IN OR LET OUT A ROPE OR CABLE
Winches; Tirfor; Griphoist; Power winch; Self tailing winch; Winch motor
·noun A Wince.
II. Winch ·noun A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
III. Winch ·noun An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
IV. Winch ·noun A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, ·etc.
VI. Winch ·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.
winch
DEVICE USED TO PULL IN OR LET OUT A ROPE OR CABLE
Winches; Tirfor; Griphoist; Power winch; Self tailing winch; Winch motor
¦ noun
1. a hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope or chain winding around a horizontal rotating drum, turned by a crank or by motor.
Brit. the reel of a fishing rod.
2. the crank of a wheel or axle.
3. another term for wince2.
¦ verb hoist or haul with a winch.
Derivatives
wincher noun
Origin
OE wince 'reel, pulley', of Gmc origin; related to wink.
Wikipedia
Peter Winch
Peter Guy Winch (14 January 1926 – 27 April 1997) was a British philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of social science, Wittgenstein scholarship, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Winch is perhaps most famous for his early book, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (1958), an attack on positivism in the social sciences, drawing on the work of R. G. Collingwood and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
