sheave

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Sharp ring of a metal sheave, hiss of a running rope, clank and throb of engines, thrashing of sails coming hard to the mast, shouts!

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

It should have come itself, but the sheave the trolley runs on must have jammed, or they haven't pulled all the kinks and snarls out of the rope.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold

The iron sheave on the stem for the anchor-chain was large, with a high cheek, and the comfort of this was well appreciated in weighing anchor at night or in a swell. 

From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by MacGregor, John

It is usually a section of a lignum-vitæ sheave let in, so as to avoid chafe.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Backmann projected two cylindrical cars that traveled in parallel shafts and balanced one another from opposite ends of common cables that passed over a sheave in the upperworks.

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