146 examples of winch in sentences

Terrier lay with full steam up at the end of the long mole, and when her winch began to rattle, Cartwright told the Spanish peons to stop rowing.

Another gang was moving a kedge-anchor across the deck, while a few more coiled heavy ropes beside the winch.

There was no movement but the racking throb, until Mayne raised his hand and winch and windlass rattled.

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.

About the middle of the afternoon, Adam stood near the noisy winch while a case was hoisted.

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

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.

"It is," said Riggs, and turned his attention to Harris and Trego, who were giving orders to the Chinese at the winch.

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.

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.

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.

What I mean is the Disturbance some People give to others at Church, by their Repetition of the Prayers after the Minister, and that not only in the Prayers, but also the Absolution and the Commandments fare no better, winch are in a particular Manner the Priests Office:

The Mate and the Second-Engineer were bidding each other affectionate and tearful farewells behind the winch.

Next comes the foremast, and between that and the fore hatch the galley and winch; on the port side of the fore hatch are stalls for four poniesa very stout wooden structure.

On either side of the main hatch and close up to the ice-house are two out of our three motor sledges; the third rests across the break of the poop in a space formerly occupied by a winch.

A third sledge stands across the break of the poop in the space hitherto occupied by the after winch.

nd me corrections and suggestions; among whom I will mention Professors John Adams and J.H. Muirhead, Dr. A. Wolf, and Messrs. W.H. Winch, Sidney Webb, L. Pearsall Smith, and A.E. Zimmern.

This contrivance does not differ in principle from the common winch, or from the key which winds a clock.

The motion of the piston-rod backwards and forwards turns such a winch.

It was now night, and a mist had gathered over the arch above, winch hid the stars, and rendered it quite dark.

What I mean is the Disturbance some People give to others at Church, by their Repetition of the Prayers after the Minister, and that not only in the Prayers, but also the Absolution and the Commandments fare no better, winch are in a particular Manner the Priests Office:

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.

"I don't want a winch," she pouted.

And another thought, winch bewilders me no less.

The narrative of the vivid dream, or vision, produced a startling effect on the coroner, who was a firm believer in every species of supernaturalism winch is most at variance with human experience and reason.

146 examples of  winch  in sentences