sheave

The pin, or axle, on which the sheave turns.

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 saddle clipped over the sheave, swung for an instant, then stood still.

From The Blue Goose by Frank Lewis Nason

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

The centre of the eccentric sheave or wheel is placed ahead of and level with the paddle shaft axis.

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

He was at the mast as he spoke, and Thomasin heard the thin scream of the unoiled sheave as the topsail halliards ran through it.

From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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