sheave
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An iron ring with a cord travelled up and down the mast, the halliard running through a small block, as Luka had been able to obtain a sheave at Turukhansk.
From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter
The part which embraces the sheave is called the eccentric strap, and corresponds to, and is, in fact, a connecting rod end: the rod proceeding from this is called the eccentric rod.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan
The sheave, or wheel, on which the rope runs.
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
The car, attached to the free ends of the cables, was hauled up as the piston drew the two sheave assemblies apart.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Vogel, Robert M.
Opening my eyes, I thrust at the opening of the sheave with the end of the line; but it was knotted, and would not go through.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
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 Smiles, Samuel
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 Henley, William Ernest
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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 Bridges, Robert Seymour
