Pulley

Quick meaning: Pulley is a noun meaning Annular ligament of the finger.

Meaning

Annular ligament of the finger.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
2. (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

Example Sentences

These pulleys […] placed collaterally.

[a mine]is digg'd out with ease, being soft, and is between a white Clay and Chalk at first; but being pulley'd up with the open Air, it receives a crusty kind of hardness

The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.

Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.

Word Forms

• pulleys
• pullies
• pulleying
• pulleyed

Synonyms for pulley

Depending on context, synonyms include block.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include block, puller, sprocket, strap, belt, pinion.

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