sheave

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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

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

Around the sheave passed a loop of chain, one end of which was fixed, the other running over guide sheaves and terminating at the crane arm with a lifting hook.

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

The surfaces are lubricated by the water, but sometimes oil lubrication is provided for the eccentric sheave.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

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