Pulleys is valid Scrabble Word

Is pulleys a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PULLEYS in dictionary:

VERB:

hoist with a pulley

NOUN:

PULLEY
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.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hoist with a pulley (a device used for lifting weight)

Words related to PULLEYS

pulley11 pulleyed14 pulleying15

How to use PULLEYS in a sentence

It came slipping through the pulleys, and up rose the stone from the well as if by magic.
This instrument was composed of wood, pulleys, cords and wheels, while he had that mechanism peculiar to man, called a heart.
Then Theseus brought out the ax and the ropes and the pulleys, and asked him what they were for, and why they were hidden in the chamber.
At the beginning of each block stand poles with projecting arms that are connected with the signal-tower by wires running over pulleys.
The power is obtained by means of a pair of pumps run through spur-gearing by the belt pulleys shown.
To give motion to the rope a single wheel is used, and friction for driving the rope is supplied either by clip pulleys or by taking the rope over several wheels.
It was a very bad thing to lose the canoe, but it was even worse to lose the rope and pulleys.
When belts are run half crossed, or what is termed quarter turn, it is very hard to make flat belts lie perfectly even on the pulleys.
Then I heard them hoisting it up the iron staircase by means of pulleys.
Others gathered excitedly about the mouth of the shaft, and the long flat ropes spinning over the pulleys travelled at top speed.

A combination of pulleys called block and tackle is used where very heavy loads are to be moved.
In Figure 111 the upper block of pulleys is fixed, the lower block is movable, and one continuous rope passes around the various pulleys.
This seems most marvelous until we learn that the lines are pulled back and forth by pulleys at the window and at a distant support.
Between these pulleys it passes over the guide pulley, G.
Sara could see that the ropes were made of taffy, but she could not imagine where they had found enough pulley-bones to supply all the pulleys.
Half-way up the mast there was a rope ladder for the use of the sailors when adjusting pulleys.
There was hardly a sound on the ship, beyond an unexplained creaking of pulleys, which soon ceased.
He saw the ropes, pulleys, and chains, attached to her form, and it seemed to him as if they were around his own breast, and choking his voice.
Most of you have seen a ship, and know the way the yards are moved, and turned, and squared by ropes and pulleys.
At B, E and P are small pulleys of equal diameters.
The invention consists, mainly, of a movable floor, suspended by chains, pulleys, and weights, near the ceiling of the entrances, and lowered in case of fire.
Mounted on the shaft with the pulleys is a guide for the kite wire or string.
To prevent it from slipping on the two wooden pulleys a rubber band was placed in the grooves of each.
The accompanying designs were made with a very crude combination of pulleys and belts, such as described.
Control wires were gone over for their full lengths and their pulleys tried.
Two wheels in two pulleys at the end of the rudder corrected this defect, and compensated, to some extent, for the loss of strength.
These pulleys were rigged with cords, one end of which was made fast to the upper part of the bed.
There was a hammock arrangement with pulleys, by which he might be swung into different positions, and out into a wheeled chair.

Similar words containing PULLEY without suffix s

pulley11 pulleyed14 pulleying15

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