different between winch vs sinch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

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

Noun

winch (plural winches)

1. A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hauling on a rope or cable.
2. (nautical) A hoisting machine used for loading or discharging cargo, or for hauling in lines. (FM 55-501).
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. 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.

3. A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
4. A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shelton to this entry?)

Translations

Verb

winch (third-person singular simple present winches, present participle winching, simple past and past participle winched)

1. To use a winch

   Winch in those sails, lad!

Translations

Etymology 2

See wince.

Verb

winch (third-person singular simple present winches, present participle winching, simple past and past participle winched)

1. To wince; to shrink
   • 1812 Joanna Baillie The Dream, Act 1

     It is not the first time a cat-o'-nine-tails has been across my back for other men's misdeeds. Promise me a good flask of brandy when I'm done with it, and I warrant ye I'll never winch.

2. To kick with impatience or uneasiness.

English

Noun

sinch (plural sinches)

1. Alternative form of cinch (simple saddle girth used in Mexico)

Verb

sinch (third-person singular simple present sinches, present participle sinching, simple past and past participle sinched)

1. (transitive, US, Western US) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle).

   to sinch up a saddle

Anagrams

• Insch, chins

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *c?nque, from Latin qu?nque, from Proto-Italic *k?enk?e. Cognates include Italian cinque and French cinq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?k/

Numeral

sinch

1. five