winching

During the hours of the night the city prepared for the winching.

After several loads filled the first wagon, the winching stopped.

In this case, the winching can also be done at the lower end of the incline.

We decided not to ride down to the city, but to wait by the stays until the winching was completed.

So even when we've done this we'll still be half a mile further behind optimum than we were at the last winching.

I took my time over the meal, knowing that there were at least another two hours before the winching could be resumed.

Winching is normally done by an electric drive that turns the pulley.

The atmosphere had improved; helped, I think, by the successful and undisturbed winching of the city away from the river.

While the winching is taking place the Traction men are in charge out here, so if they tell you to jump, jump.

Fool had said winching was evil, anti-life, and against the will of Potipur.

Guy Blod seemed about to burst, supervising the last welds and the winching of it into place.

Do your winching (courting) somewhere else.

"On the next winching, perhaps.

Recharging can be done by manual winching or by shaking, hereby avoiding the need of any supplementary electrical system.

Up ahead, some two miles to the south, he could see the ridge of high ground that the city had had to climb during the first winching he had witnessed.

Before each winching, therefore, each of the five cables to be used had to be checked over foot by foot, cleaned and greased, and bound where frays occurred.

I reasoned that the rest of the winching should not take long once the pulleys were out of the way, for it was clear that the rest of the tracks led along a downhill gradient.

Mick had showed me all her gadgetry one day, from the automatic winching that made sail handling painless, to the surprising capacity of the fuel and water tanks, to the capacity of the air-conditioning system.

Tiny turned the winch handle rapidly at first, taking up a lot of slack, while the car sat out there like a newly discovered island; then the rope tautened, the winching got harder, and the Hornet wallowed reluctantly shoreward.

During the time I was with the Traction men there was a certain amount of debate on the subject of whether the winching should be carried out on four winches--thus allowing more time for bearing servicing--or should be increased to all six winches, thus reducing wear.

Even what passed for summer in Glasgow was enough to tempt much of his target market outdoors to have a go at games based on the Real Life(tm) engine, usually teamplay mods such as Football and Cricket, or that ever- popular two-player pursuit marketed variously as Dating, Winching and Lumbering.