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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

The wheel of a pulley is called a sheave, and by habit it has grown to be a common expression to call the block and wheel in hoisting works "the sheaves."

From The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin

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

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 Harold Bindloss

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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