Winched vs Finched - 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.
(finch)
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
To hunt for finches, to go finching.
As verbs the difference between winched and finched
is that winched is (winch) while finched is (finch).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!