sheave

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The telpher carries a small trolley sheave or bow which serves to collect the current from a trolley wire stretched a little above the rail.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

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

From The Blue Goose by Nason, Frank Lewis

A small iron cruciform frame, having a swivel-hook, furnished with an iron sheave, to serve as a pulley for the use of chain in discharging cargo and other purposes.

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

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 Collingwood, Harry

It should have come itself, but the sheave the trolley runs on must have jammed, or they haven't pulled all the kinks and snarls out of the rope.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold