Pulley

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
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3. A hamlet in Bayston Hill parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4809).
4. Annular ligament of the finger.

Equivalents

Examples

“These pulleys […] placed collaterally.”

“Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw⟳ up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.”

“The steel haulage ropes have⟳ a breaking strain⟳ of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect⟳ the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.”

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