Crossword-Solution: WINCHES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WINCHES | anagram | WENCHIS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “WINCHES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cranking devices | 1 answer |
| Windlasses | 1 answer |
| Hoisting devices? | 3 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZAEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WINCHES (5)
One day John Hardy, who found time hang a little on his hands since his retirement from business, strolled along by the water’s edge listening to the clanking of the steam winches, and watching the great barrels and cases as they were swung ashore and piled upon the wharf.
Then a grayback cleared us out, then the skipper laughed; “Boys, the wheel has gone to Hell -- rig the winches aft! Yoke the kicking rudder-head -- get her under way!” So we steered her, pulley-haul, out across the Bay! Just a pack o' rotten plates puttied up with tar, In we came, an' time enough, 'cross Bilbao Bar.
The distant sounds of the derricks and winches came muffled through the tightly-shut window that looked as though it never had been opened.
The serang and the Malay crew were overhauling the cargo chains and trying the winches; their voices sounded subdued on the deck below, and their movements were languid.
And the steam winches were so arranged as to be serviceable for all the heavy hauls, as well as for the rapid handling of the cargo.
Quotes with WINCHES (1)
I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a single human being to be seen. No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1977–1985).