Winch
[wɪn(t)ʃ] or [wɪntʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds.
(verb.) pull or lift up with or as if with a winch; 'winch up the slack line'.
弗洛整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
(n.) A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
(n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
(n.) An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
(n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
(n.) A wince.
整理:卢修斯
解釋/意思:
n. the crank of a wheel or axle: a kind of hoisting machine: a dyer's reel suspended horizontally by the ends of its axis over the vat so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment of the bath according as it is turned on the right or left.—Also Wince.
欧文整理
例句/造句/用法:
- The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- K K, Steam Winches for working moorings and shifting position of the barge. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- If those eyes of yours were bed-winches, returned Miss Pross, and I was an English four-poster, they shouldn't loose a splinter of me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
校對:谢尔比