Axle vs Winch - What's the difference?
axle | winch |
The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
An axis; as, the Sun’s axle.
A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a pawl, and a crank handle, with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope.
(nautical) A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501).
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 267.
*:It runs on clattering steel tracks; the driver sits in a cab over the tracks, operating the controls that rotate the arm and turn the winch .
A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
To use a winch
To wince; to shrink
To kick with impatience or uneasiness.
As nouns the difference between axle and winch
is that axle is shoulder while winch is a machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a pawl, and a crank handle, with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope.As a verb winch is
to use a winch.axle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) axle, eaxle, from (etyl) , (etyl) .Etymology 2
A combination of (etyl) eax and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* (wikipedia "axle") *Anagrams
*winch
English
(wikipedia winch)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) *winkjo- , ultimately from the (etyl) root , whence also (l).Noun
(es)- (Shelton)
Verb
(es)- Winch in those sails, lad!
