sheave

It consists of three main parts—the sheave, or circular plate S, mounted on the crank shaft; and the two straps which encircle it, and in which it revolves.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Unfortunately the halliards had somehow got jammed aloft in the sheave, and the sail would not come down.

From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood

Overhead the tramp of feet was to be heard, followed by the whine of a rope running through a sheave.

From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby

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 Frank T. Bullen

He was at the mast as he spoke, and Thomasin heard the thin scream of the unoiled sheave as the topsail halliards ran through it.

From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the high Autumn flames afield, And what is all his golden yield To that we took, and sheaved, and bound In the green dusk that gladdened round?

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

Mingled arrows each one sheaved; Death's dread armoury was stored With the shafts he most abhorred; Love's light quiver groaned beneath Venom-headed darts of Death.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

The sheaved blocks used for the running rigging consisted of the shell, the sheaves, which revolved within the shell, and the pins which fastened them together.

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

Or like a juicy and jostling shock    Of bluebells sheaved in May Or wind-long fleeces on the flock    A day off shearing day.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges