Definition of "winched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of winch. (verb)

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• "So we got an all-volunteer Air Force chopper crew that flew over the battlefield, took a lot of fire, but "winched" them out."
• "At the far side of the windowless room was the large steel box Kate had described seeing winched down by the crane."
• ""The oil industry is moving away from helicopters for in-field operations because of safety concerns and, in any case, being winched on to the top of a 100m turbine in a gale is not an attractive proposition.""