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sheave

[sheev] / ʃiv /
NOUN
pulley
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The looped-up derrick-fall was a double wire cable, running through a heavy iron sheave which carried the hook and grappling chains.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

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

The sheave, or wheel, on which the rope runs.

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 Sir Edward Belcher

The iron sheave on the stem for the anchor-chain was large, with a high cheek, and the comfort of this was well appreciated in weighing anchor at night or in a swell. 

From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by John MacGregor

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

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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