Winch

1. n. A wince.
2. v. i. To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
3. n. A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
4. n. A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
5. n. An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
6. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.