Winched vs Cinched - What's the difference?
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(winch)
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.
(cinch)
A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
* He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch , and he went straight at the mooted question. — B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand
(informal) Something that is very easy to do.
* "We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that." — Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns
(informal) A firm hold.
* You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia. — Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,
To bring to certain conclusion.
To tighten down.
As verbs the difference between winched and cinched
is that winched is (winch) while cinched is (cinch).winched
English
Verb
(head)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!
Etymology 2
See wince.Verb
(es)cinched
English
Verb
(head)cinch
English
Noun
(es)- No problem ... it's a cinch .