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  • 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.

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • 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

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