pulley-block

There is a block, what they call a single pulley-block, and this stouter rope is doubled through it.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

For hauling up the loads, a thin wire line, with a pulley-block at either extremity, rolling one on each of the carrying wires, passed round a snatch-block at the upper station.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

They could have told you that the great gaudy vans were loaded on a train of flat cars, and that a single horse working a rope and pulley-block trundled the vans from the train nearly as fast as their respective teamsters could hitch horses to them and drive away.

Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

Rusted in their sockets, they resisted him but he spied a pulley-block within reach and used it as a hammer.

Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898

Lafe Jeems and Nate Tanner and Jimmy Rosencranz were supplied with some oxen they fastened a chain to each end of the log (Fig. 182), then fastened a pulley-block to the other side of the cabin, that is, the side opposite the skids, and ran the line through the pulley-block to the oxen as it is run to the three men in Fig. 182.

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

The word is thought possibly to have its origins in sailing, where a bollock is a pulley-block at the head of a topmast.

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a hauling chain, passing through an anchored pulley-block far up the grade and back to the freed engine of the construction train, was made fast to the forward end of the bolted section; a second word of command, and the engine backed swiftly, dragging the prepared section off over the rollers of the flat-cars and into place on the ties.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893