Had the strikers fixed the wincheswith the purpose of killing strike-breakers?
Up her other side came climbing gangs of men who began to make ready her winches and open up her hatches.
A blast from the Hawk's syren gave the signal to weigh anchor; the winches rattled, the cables came rumbling up through the hawse-pipes, and the privateer slowly steamed towards the harbour mouth with the Satellite in her wake.
As soon as the second line had been secured the steam-winches were started and began to wind in the lines until the hawsers appeared under the Hawk's stern, one on each side.
This end was drawn back by means of levers andwinches against the twist of the bundle of sinews and held by a catch.
This time Prochaska and Nagel fed line through the winches more slowly.
The lines to the anchor winchesbecame taut and the rocket hung, half-suspended in space.
It was poised on the brink of the rill with cables encircling its body, running to winches anchored nearby.
The lines were intended to anchor the winches during the critical period of lowering the rocket.
Larkwell had run two cables to manually operated winches set about twenty-five yards from the rocket.
Larkwell was testing the winches and checking the cables when they arrived.
Richter and Nagel manned the lowering winches while Larkwell worked with the guide line, with only small hand torches to aid them.
As he had surmised, the winches had been housed over and fairly buried in grease when the ship laid up; hence they were in absolutely perfect condition.
Two winches were kept busy, the first mate being in charge of the work up forward and Matt superintending that aft.
The winches are still groaning along the docks; cabs roll through the streets.
A skipper puts his head out of a companionway and sniffs toward the weather; the sea stretches in undisturbed calm; all the winches are at rest.
Only the winches rattle; they shatter the air with their cheerful noise this bright morning.
But later there came a creaking of tackles, and the clanking of a steam winch--one of the smaller winches operating the boat falls.
They are not using any steamwinches to-night," was Van Dyck's muttered comment upon this.
This seemed good advice, so the auxiliary engine was started and the winches began turning slowly.
Then the winches lifted 150 bodies out of the forward hold and placed them on a scow beside the ship.
Winches lowered many sacks of sugar into the lower hold.
Winches were working rapidly, raising American-made appliances and cars to the deck.
The distant sounds of the derricks and winches came muted through the tightly shut window that looked as though it never had been opened.
Having seen them well under way and the winches working, George sought out Boyd and proudly inquired: "What do you think of them, eh?
Her silent winches and closed hatchways, deserted decks and passages, were markedly in contrast to the stir and animation with which we set about unloading and preparing for the return voyage.
Clouds of high-pressure steam from the winchesand pumps threw out in exhaust, and the hooded, ghost-like figures of the labourers passed and repassed in drifts of white vapour.
With a thud and jar to clear the stiffening of a voyage's inaction, our deck winches start in to their long heave that shall only end with the closing of the hatches on a laden cargo.
The thunder of the winches pauses for an instant--he shouts down the hatchway: "Mike!
The roar and thrust and rattle of the straining winches ceases on Monday evening.
There were winches to clean and paint, bulwarks to be chipped and scaled, that new poop 'dodger' to be cut and sewn.
And so our decorations must needs wait till we reach port, when the holds are in travail and the winches scream out their agony to the bare brown hills beyond the town and mingle with the deep, dull roar of the surf on the barrier reef.
Far down the harbour, near the Castello, a steamer's winches rattled and roared in irregular gusts of noise.
In the gathering gloom of a short January afternoon, with the rush and roar of the winches in my ears, I stumble aft to my quarters, thinking pleasantly of my first acquaintance.
One cannot write from Madeira when "Madeira" means a plunging vortex of coal-dust, a blazing sun, and the unending roar of the winches as they fish up ton after ton of coal.
Each half of the bridge swings on horizontal axles, and the raising or lowering is effected by means of hand winches or other motive-power, actuating wheel-gearing working into toothed vertical segments attached to the tail end of each half.
K K, Steam Winches for working moorings and shifting position of the barge.
These doors are hinged on to the side of Vessel, and suspended at centre by the Lifting Chains, which are connected to geared Crab Winches I I.
The steamer's winches rattled as they hove up cargo from the barge, but Jake had seen that there was not much left and she would sail as soon as the last load was hoisted in.
A man came down the ladder when the launch jarred against its foot, and Ida, finding that Fuller was still on board, went up while Dick steamed across to the cargo-boat that lay with winches hammering not far off.
There was a rattle of cranes and winches and a noisy tug was towing a row of barges towards the land.
The winches are removable, and are not put upon the shaft until the moment they are to be used.
Two men are sufficient to turn the winches for five minutes; with a force of six men to relieve one another the apparatus may therefore be run continuously.
Two strong men selected for the purpose now seize the winches and begin to revolve them, and the lamps immediately light while in their boxes.
All the while the winches hammered and pulleys screamed as the cases came up and the empty slings went down.
As the Rio Negro slowly swung round, the winches rattled and her boats were hoisted out.
The spindles of these winches are fixed in two vertical posts, which support the axis of the upper frame.
Two cables were passed ashore to winches to which power was supplied by the shipyard's engines.
We can even start some of the engines on shore, and rig winches to haul on extra cables.
Two cables were passed ashore to winches to which power was supplied by the shipyard’s engines.
When six persons had got inside, thewinches on the ship began to revolve, raising the basket high enough to clear the deck rail, and the passengers were slowly lowered to a lighter below.
A point of the flesh is released, a chain hooked to it, the winches again start revolving, and the whalebone begins peeling off the inside of the mouth as freely as did the blubber off the back.
A signal being given a man at the winches to start, the piece of released hide begins to peel from the jaw, then down to the shoulder, and further still.
Illustration: Every Day our Winches Whirred and Clattered off some Dusty, Sand-blown Port] In this harbor rode the queerest of sea-going craft.
The air was noisy with the cries of men, and a rhythmic thudding, through which came the rattle of winches and the hiss of steam.
A sawmill shrieked complainingly; a noisy switch-engine shunted rows of flat cars back and forth, tooting lustily; the rattle of steam- winches and the cries of stevedores from a discharging freighter echoed against the hillsides.
A succession of lighters left the quay and moored alongside us, and all day we listened with delight to the clatter and whirr of the winches as they transferred bales and barrels to the Batoum's hatches.
There were manila rope falls of sufficient length for lowering the boats to the vessel's light draft, and when the boats were lowered, to be able to reach the boat winches on the boat deck.
Four electrically driven boat winches on the boat deck for hauling up the boats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
