sheave
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Backmann projected two cylindrical cars that traveled in parallel shafts and balanced one another from opposite ends of common cables that passed over a sheave in the upperworks.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel
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 Charles Carroll Goodwin
As the name implies, the cables were not wrapped on a drum but passed, from the car, over a grooved sheave directly on the motor shaft, the other ends being attached to the counterweights.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel
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 Joshua Rose
Weight of transmission rope = .34 X dia.2 Breaking strength = 7,000 X dia.2 Maximum allowable tension = 200 X dia.2 Dia. smallest practicable sheave.
From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine
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
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
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
