pulley

How To Use pulley In A Sentence

• The double-line pull uses a snatch block (also known as a pulley block) to run the wire rope out to an anchor and then double it back to the vehicle, where the hook is attached to the frame -- not the bumper, winch, or any part of the suspension. Winching How-To: Never Get Your Truck Stuck Again
• It was being pulleyed by several cords of thick rope overhead.
• There are two large weights hung from pulleys behind the clock.
• The Vasa Trainer operates on a sled that rolls on a track and comes equipped with all sorts of cords, straps, pulleys and a slew of accessories.
• If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
• Traditionally these machines have belts and pulleys to change increment speeds, which wouldn't change so often.
• Fixed to the pulley was a long rope, which was hand-held. Australian Story Online - Chapter 2
• From the window of the doomed wretch's apartments a derrick protrudes -- a crossarm with a pulley and a rope attached. Europe Revised
• Then she brushed off her hands and went back to the pulley rope. FOLLY
• Machines and engines, pulleys and wheels, and the idea that power could be harnessed by man-made devices made the toilsome labor of the past nearly obsolete.