winch (behavior)

A winch is a mechanical device.
Do you possibly mean "a wench"? "Behavior" could make some sense in that case.

A winch is a force multiplier which allows a man to apply tremendous force in pulling something.

There are also "power winches" mounted on some off-road vehicles, which apply the power of the engine to a drum or reel, winding up a tow cable. The vehicle can thus pu

This is the sentence, where the peculiar word is found.

We smile, cry, yawn, winch, wretch, rock, nod, synchronize, and basically mimic others all the time, to what extent are these the actions of an autonomous self, independent of others?

Maybe a witch?

makskiThis is the sentence, where the peculiar word is found.We smile, cry, yawn, winch, wretch, rock, nod, synchronize, and basically mimic others all the time, to what extent are these the actions of an autonomous self, independent of others?

There is at least one other spelling mistake in there. They meant "retch", not "wretch", so your "winch" is either "w

I vote for "wince". Anyway, that's what I thought of first when I read it.

CJ

makskiThis is the sentence, where the peculiar word is found.We smile, cry, yawn, winch, wretch, rock, nod, synchronize, and basically mimic others all the time, to what extent are these the actions of an autonomous self, independent of others?

It's a very odd use of the word.

To winch (verb) means to pull or lift something heavy to a position you wa

Here's what I've found in thefreedictionary.com, alas it explains little, how does one move with a winch?

tr.v. winched, winch·ing, winch·es

To move with or as if with a winch.

You know what, I think enoon is right. It should be wince and retch. So it's a fault on the editors side after all.

But maybe not, at least the word might have been intentional. It appears that winch is in fact an obsolete form of wince