Others set up two posts, each with a hole in it, and insert a winch, along with old greasy rags, in the holes.

wee that haue free soules, it touches vs not: let the gall'd iade winch: our withers are vnrung.

The bows lifted, and starting the winches, they hauled aft the ropes.

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

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

For supplying steam to the engines there are two return-tube boilers, each having three furnaces, and there is also a donkey boiler, which is used in harbor for working the four steam winches on deck.