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Related Terms:
shiver
block and tackle
whirling table
fusee
trochlear
idler
rigger
wheel
chain
wedge
micropulley
harmonic balancer
flying fox
gin
trispast
pully
inclined plane
pulleyless
trochlea
pulleylike
sheave
block
hoist
funicular
gorge
telodynamic
truckle
groove
reeved
pulleyed
burton
quarter belt
lever
shifter
compound bow
rim
samson post
zipline
manhandle
pulleys
trochilus
hoistroom
polyspast
gear down
screw
rope
belt drive
polyspaston
ball signal
homodromous
well
Definitions:
Noun
pulley
pulley-block
pulley block
block
Definition: a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
Definition: 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).
Verb
Definition: To raise or lift by means of a pulley.