An immense advantage attends the use of those distillers that are combined with a winch boiler.

A donkey-engine was rumbling, a winch clattering, a capstan-pawl clanking.

The winch-driver was watching the others who struggled with the guy, and perhaps forgot it was not a strong man who had come to his help.

Puffs of steam blew about, the cable rose from the water with a jar, and the warps ran slowly across the winch-drums, foul with greasy scum.

Soldiers up in the Gallipoli hills, the captain on the bridge, a stevedore working on a lighter in the blaze of noon with the winch engines squealing round himyou turn round to find a man, busy the moment before, standing like a statue, hands folded in front of him, facing the east.

And then with a closing volley of every text winch figures under the head of "Snow" in the Concordance, the discourse comes to an end; and every liberated urchin goes home with his head full of devout fancies of building a snow-fort, after sunset, from which to propel consecrated missiles against imaginary or traditional Pequots.

The winch-man looked up when the heavy load, hanging from the derrick, swung across the slanted deck.

When the screw has to be lifted, the screw shaft is drawn into the vessel, leaving the short shaft free to be raised up by the sliding frame, and the frame is raised by long screws turned round by a winch purchase on deck.

The forecastle-head could barely be made out, and the winch-wheels and ventilators on deck were inchoate masses which took shape only when they were within reach.