sheave

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The distance from the centre of the sheave to the centre of the shaft is called the radius or eccentricity of the eccentric.

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

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.

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.

Then the length of the corrected base-line is multiplied by the height of the mast, taken from the deck to the sheave on the topmast, and the result is divided by two.

From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various

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 Collingwood, Harry