Linch vs Winch - What's the difference?
linch | winch |
A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
* 1910 , An introduction to the study of local history and antiquities , page 387:
* Peter James, ?Nick Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries (ISBN 0307414604), page 289:
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 a noun linch
is a ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.As a proper noun winch is
(informal) winchester (city in england).linch
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Alternative forms
* lynchNoun
(es)- Within ten years linches' were formed; rain washed down the mould, some accident arrested it at a certain line, and a terrace was the result. Certainly the tendency is for the upper part of such a field to be denuded of mould, to be worked "to the bone," i.e. to the bare chalk or stone. But the first makers of ' linches had no choice. They had to farm on slopes or not at all,
- Indeed, a map of 1844 marks some of the lower terraces on the southern and eastern flanks of the hill as "Tor Linches," a linch or lynchet being a terrace of land wide enough to plot. (Some linches were deliberately Fashioned; others came about as the land flattened into platforms through being worked.)
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(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!