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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 Harold Bindloss

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

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

Around the sheave passed a loop of chain, one end of which was fixed, the other running over guide sheaves and terminating at the crane arm with a lifting hook.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel

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 Frank T. Bullen

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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