winch

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Various origins: * A topographic surname for someone who lived at a place where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Old English winċe (“winch”). * From the second part of Old English hlēapewince (“lapwing”), probably a nickname.

From Middle English wynche, from Old English winċe, from Proto-Germanic *winkijǭ, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), whence also wink.

See wince.

Variant form of wench.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: argano — machine
• Arabic: مِلْفَاف (milfāf) — machine
• Bulgarian: лебе́дка (lebédka) — machine
• Bulgarian: макара (makara) — machine
• Catalan: cabrestant — machine
• Catalan: gigre — machine
• Chinese Mandarin: 絞車 /绞车 (jiǎochē) — machine
• Chinese Mandarin: 絞盤 /绞盘 (jiǎopán) — machine
• Czech: naviják — machine
• Danish: spil — machine
• Danish: trækspil — machine
• Dutch: lier — machine
• Dutch: windas — machine
• Esperanto: vinĉo — machine
• Estonian: vints — machine
• Finnish: vinssi — machine
• Finnish: vintturi — machine
• French: treuil — machine
• Galician: guindastre — machine
• Galician: guincho — machine
• Galician: torno — machine
• Georgian: ჯალამბარი (ǯalambari) — machine
• German: Winde — machine
• German: Winsch — machine
• Hungarian: csörlő — machine
• Icelandic: vinda — machine
• Italian: argano — machine
• Italian: verricello — machine
• Italian: bozzello — machine
• Italian: salpareti — machine
• Japanese: ウインチ (uinchi) — machine
• Kazakh: шығыр (şyğyr) — machine
• Korean: 원치 (wonchi) — machine
• Latgalian: svērte — machine
• Latin: sucula — machine
• Latvian: vinda — machine
• Macedonian: че́крек (čékrek) — machine
• Macedonian: ди́галка (dígalka) — machine
• Māori: huritaura — machine
• Norwegian Bokmål: vinsj — machine
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vinsj — machine
• Old English: wince — machine
• Polish: kołowrót — machine
• Polish: wciągarka — machine
• Portuguese: molinete — machine
• Russian: лебёдка (lebjódka) — machine
• Russian: во́рот (vórot) — machine
• Slovak: rumpál — machine
• Slovak: navijak — machine
• Slovene: vitel — machine
• Spanish: cabrestante — machine
• Spanish: torno — machine
• Spanish: cabestrante — machine
• Spanish: argüe (disused) — machine
• Spanish: argue (disused) — machine
• Spanish: súcula — machine
• Spanish: wincha — machine
• Spanish: güinche — machine
• Spanish: güincher — machine
• Swahili: winchi — machine
• Swedish: vinsch — machine
• Tagalog: biling-bilingan — machine
• Turkish: vinç — machine
• Turkish: ırgat — machine
• Ottoman Turkish: چقرق (çıkrık) — machine
• Ottoman Turkish: بوجرغات (bocurgat) — machine
• Ottoman Turkish: ارغات (ırgat) — machine
• Welsh: winsh — machine
• Welsh: dirwynlath — machine
• Zazaki: vinç — machine
• Estonian: vintsima — use a winch
• Estonian: vinnama — use a winch
• Finnish: vinssata — use a winch
• French: treuiller — use a winch
• German: winden — use a winch
• Icelandic: vinda — use a winch
• Norwegian Bokmål: vinsje — use a winch
• Russian: поднима́ть с по́мощью лебёдки (podnimátʹ s pómoščʹju lebjódki) — use a winch
• Slovene: dvigovati — use a winch
• Swedish: vinscha — use a winch
• Welsh: winsio — use a winch