sheave

Example Sentences

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And away the yard went to the mast-head till the bunt-robands jammed in the sheave.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various

In the eccentric what corresponds to the crank-pin is called the sheave or pulley.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

The water was smooth as oil, and so still that not a creaking rope or rattling sheave disturbed the deathlike silence.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

Water, admitted to a horizontal cylinder, displaced a piston and rod to which a sheave was attached.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.

The looped-up derrick-fall was a double wire cable, running through a heavy iron sheave which carried the hook and grappling chains.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis