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Face :: Face (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object..

Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes..

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Brail :: Brail (n.) Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling..

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

Pentaspast :: Pentaspast (n.) A purchase with five pulleys.

Lift :: Lift (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley.

Nest :: Nest (n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively..

Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel..

Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..

Cone Pulley :: Cone pulley () A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape..

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) The groove of a pulley.

Idler :: Idler (n.) An idle wheel or pulley. See under Idle.

Trispaston :: Trispaston (n.) A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.

Pulley :: Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

Tetraspaston :: Tetraspaston (n.) A machine in which four pulleys act together.

Tightener :: Tightener (n.) That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley..

Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to

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