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- noun Plural form of
pulley .
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Examples
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-- Keep all moving parts, such as pulleys, control levers, and hinges of controlling surfaces, well greased.
The Aeroplane Speaks 1919
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-- Keep all moving parts, such as pulleys, control levers, and hinges of controlling surfaces, well greased.
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-- Keep all moving parts, such as pulleys, control levers, and hinges of controlling surfaces, well greased.
The Aeroplane Speaks 1917
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Ellis says some former fixtures are still in the abandoned buildings, such as pulleys that miners may have used to hang up dirty work clothes at the end of the day.
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Boxes, etc., to be provided with pulleys or casters. further amended by inserting after the word "pulleys", in the fifth line, the word: — or, — and by striking out the words "or some other mechanical device", in the fifth and sixth lines, so as to read as follows: — Section 1.
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As a result, he gave us all the gear like the anchor, chain, sails, rigging, turnbuckles, ropes and pulleys.
Reid Stowe & Soanya Ahmad: Setting Sail From NYC For Guyana Reid Stowe 2011
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The pulleys can be placed close to or far away from the levers, and again the wire should ideally leave the levers perpendicularly.
A different linear transmission mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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If it is not practical to route a wire directly from point to point, we can wind the wire around pulleys like so:
A different linear transmission mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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Through the years, design improved with pulleys and foot pedals and the like, but to be perfectly honest, it was all pretty unremarkable and brutal until the 20th century, which is where we'll jump to.
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: The Noise That People Fear: The Dental Drill D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2012
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Through the years, design improved with pulleys and foot pedals and the like, but to be perfectly honest, it was all pretty unremarkable and brutal until the 20th century, which is where we'll jump to.
Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: The Noise That People Fear: The Dental Drill D.D.S. Thomas P. Connelly 2012
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