sheave

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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 Vogel, Robert M.

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

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 Goodwin, Charles Carroll

The space in the shell where the sheave revolves.

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

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 Paget, Walter