Flinch from engineers with wind (6)
I believe the answer is:
recoil
'flinch' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'engineers with wind' is the wordplay.
'engineers' becomes 're' (Royal Engineers).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'wind' becomes 'coil' (coiling is a kind of winding**).
're'+'coil'='RECOIL'
'from' is the link.
(Other definitions for recoil that I've seen before include "backlash" , "withdraw" , "Flinch, starts back" , "Feel disgust" , "(As a firearm) spring back" .)