Bolted to a wall beam was a small hand winch.
There was a hand winch and he cranked at it determinedly until the mainsail was up.
For decades, an old rusting hand winch has been found on the beach.
Drill-operable hand winches permit the handle to be removed so that an electric drill may operate the hoist.
The position of the landing stages is adjusted by hand winch to suit the level of the water.
The bow ramp was lowered and raised by two hand winches.
"We will have to use hand winches, and perhaps horse whims, until we can get a steam engine to do the haulage."
The forward hatch cover is coming off, and two sailors are beginning to rig a pulley attached to a geared hand winch.
We heaved it up on hand winch, yes.
In the beginning by hand winches.