Pulley is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PULLEY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hoist with a pulley
• A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.
• lift with a pulley
• hoist with a pulley
NOUN:
• a wheel with a grooved rim around which a cord passes, which acts to change the direction of a force applied to the cord and is used to raise heavy weights.
• a wheel or drum fixed on a shaft and turned by a belt, used for the application or transmission of power.
• device for lifting weights by a downward pull
• a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to hoist with a pulley (a device used for lifting weight)

Words related to PULLEY

pulleyed14 pulleying15 pulleys12

Words that contain PULLEY

pulleys12 pulleyed14 pulleying15

How to use PULLEY in a sentence

• When she reached the top, where the pulley was close against the ceiling, her brains would be dashed out and the small body dragged to pieces between beam and ceiling.
• The pulley was then drawn up, and her luggage lowered by Mr.
• It was necessary to belt it down from a small to a larger pulley to run the generator at a slower speed, which was 1200 a minute.
• Suppose the cord taken twice over a pulley fixed on the shaft driven by the motor and round a fixed pulley, C.
• The cover fits in a sand bath, and is raised and lowered by means of the pulley chain, W, and the swinging crane, X.
• This would have been accomplished easily if we had had a pulley, but as we had none it took hard pulling to make the rope travel.
• It is sometimes more convenient to move a load in one direction rather than in another, and the pulley in its simplest form enables us to do this.
• If we employ a stationary pulley, as in Figure 109, we do not change the force, because the force required to balance the load is as large as the load itself.
• The weight is divided equally between the two parts of the string which passes around the pulley, so that each strand bears only one half of the burden.
• Seizing her by both wrists she flung her to the floor, then pulled a rope passing over a pulley in the wall, which started the great alarm-bell, in the passage, clanging wildly.
• Sister Mary Rebecca, mounted upon a stool, attempted to spy through the hole over the rope and pulley by means of which the Reverend Mother rang the Convent bell.
• Commencing with walks in the open air and the use of light pulley weights or clubs or bells, the quantity of exercise may be gradually increased.
• The cow-punch, he crawled up to the peak of the roof with a pulley, made it fast and passed Mr.
• To an enormous tree on the roadside a gigantic three-wheel pulley was fastened by means of a metal band around the lower part of the trunk.
• The pulley at B is fixed to a rod which passes through the point D, which itself is fixed in the T-square.
• There is a mark in the roof remaining, possibly caused by the fastening of the pulley.
• The pulley on this shaft is made of pieces of wood nailed together, and its circumference cut out with a scroll saw.
• The pulley in the ceiling must be placed a little in front of the door, in order to throw the door open after lifting it from the catch.
• By pulling the rope up at the window the large pulley would turn on the water and when released the weight would shut off the flow.
• At every heave on the rope our blood came out of us, until a ball shattered a pulley, and the gun fell.
• The shot is raised by means of a pulley, fixed at the top of the structure, to any desired height, and let go by releasing the clutch that holds it.

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