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Winched vs Wenched - What's the difference?

winched | wenched |

As verbs the difference between winched and wenched

is that winched is (winch) while wenched is (wench).

winched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (winch)

    • 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)
  • 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.
    • (Shelton)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use a winch
    • Winch in those sails, lad!

    Etymology 2

    See wince.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To wince; to shrink
  • To kick with impatience or uneasiness.

    • wenched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wench)

    • wench

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (archaic) A young woman, especially a servant.
  • * W. Black
    • He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue-eyed little wench .
  • (archaic) A promiscuous woman.
  • * Spectator
    • It is not a digression to talk of bawds in a discourse upon wenches .
  • (US, dated) A black woman; a negress.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To frequent prostitutes; to womanize.
  • * 2011 , [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3091.html]:
    • Wining and wenching , baby!