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An iron ring with a cord travelled up and down the mast, the halliard running through a small block, as Luka had been able to obtain a sheave at Turukhansk.

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget

Opening my eyes, I thrust at the opening of the sheave with the end of the line; but it was knotted, and would not go through.

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

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 David W. Bone

The car, attached to the free ends of the cables, was hauled up as the piston drew the two sheave assemblies apart.

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

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

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

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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