winches's Usage Examples:

large that they are difficult to handle, although modern technology is helping with this through the use of electric winches and furling systems.

rope/cable excavator, where the digging arm is controlled and powered by winches and steel ropes, rather than hydraulics like in the more common hydraulic.

are two speed, self-tailing winches for the mainsheet, halyards and the genoas.

For sailing there are two primary winches mounted to the cockpit coamings, plus two halyard winches forward on the cabin roof.

It eventually snares the log of ambergris and the Nisshin Maru winches it up into the flensing bay through the back of the ship.

standard equipment included a 110% roller furling genoa, a fiberglass mainsheet arch, three two-speed self tailing winches, marine VHF radio, knotmeter.

To allow space for the increased equipment some items from the original specification were removed, including 2 anchor winches from the bow, all the moon pools, and the boilers used to provide steam for the steam hammers.

double-drum mooring winches and two combined electrically driven anchor windlasses for raising and lowering the anchor and its 142-millimetre (5.

snares the log of ambergris and the Nisshin Maru winches it up into the flensing bay through the back of the ship.

Open boats are usually unmechanized or use hand-operated winches.

operation is fundamentally different from cable-operated excavators which use winches and steel ropes to accomplish the movements.

special equipment such as the jaws of life, wooden cribbing, generators, winches, hi-lift jacks, cranes, cutting torches, circular saws and other forms.

walkways, called catwalks, are then erected using a set of guide wires hoisted into place via winches positioned atop the towers.

Synonyms:

lifting device, yard donkey, ship, yarder, capstan, windlass,

Antonyms:

abduct, adduct, fire, disembark, get off,