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pulley

noun as in machine

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The workers check and replace the large plastic bulbs on the long strings of lights and then use pulleys and hoists to hang and sometimes muscle those long strands of faceted lights onto the branches.

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He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".

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The bears lived in a treehouse surrounded by innovative systems of rigs and pulleys.

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Prior to the police operation, most of the miners were only able to get underground through a makeshift pulley system operated by people at the surface.

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As of 1:55 p.m., rescuers had removed dirt down to the trapped man’s thigh but needed to remove more before hoisting him out of the trench using a pulley system, Scott said.

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