Sentence examples for on a winch from inspiring English sources

Getting the bombards onto the roof may have required them to be hoisted up on a winch; one such hoist formed part of the accounts for the tower's construction in 1398 and 1399.

On Oracle the trimming is done with line on a winch.

Jib trimmer: The person in charge of adjusting the forward sails with line on a winch driven by grinders.

Its grand chandelier, which came from a Russian palace and reputedly once belonged to Catherine the Great, is lowered on a winch, the floors are waxed and the furniture dusted.

The investigation comes as European governments probe the "sick cow" scandal in Poland in January, after an undercover journalist filmed cows too sick to walk being dragged on a winch into a slaughterhouse.

We measured warp loads of a bongo sampler in a flume tank over a range of water velocities (0 1.05 m s−1) to estimate the payload on a winch during deployment.

These will stay with him thru the long firm nights of average American life when he misses the sound of a channel buoy and the rattle of a winch on a clean deck!

Mechanical force was applied using a pulling device that consisted of a winch mounted on a metal frame that sat on the river bank, and from which a cable, with attached load cell, was connected to the stem of a S. erectum plant.

Who could forget the lawsuit over Susan's insistence on installing a winch on her neighbors' roof at River House to hoist a 22-foot Christmas tree up the side of the building and into her two-story apartment?

Mr. Fishelson has outfitted his H2 with lights on top, a winch and his ham radio.

"This is just like waiting for a hurricane," says LeRoy Meaux, a Louisiana welder, as he works on fixing a winch to a barge.