pulley-wheel

He wrinkles up his nose at me and unhooks a leg to kick my cage forward on its pulley-wheel.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

He wrinkles up his nose at me and unhooks a leg to kick my cage forward on its pulley-wheel.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

He looked at the trapeze swinging below the wire rope, running along it on a pulley-wheel.

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

It was Doss Provine, at the big fireplace heating a poker to burn a hole through his pulley-wheel, who turned toward his mother-in-law and grinned foolishly.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

In order to raise the heavy back, I had a pulley-wheel fastened to the ceiling, through which a rope passed, with a ring that could be attached to a corresponding hook at the side of the back, in order to hoist it or lower it.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

Then the dumbwaiter, which was a sort of open box, slid down on the rope that ran over a pulley-wheel, and Margy was lifted out.

Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's Laura Lee Hope

The rope which went over the pulley-wheel up there in the roof ran out through a window under the eaves, and was made fast near the barn door outside, where anyone could haul on it.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

Passers-by on the road after dark said they heard the old pulley-wheel clanking when no breeze stirred, much as you hear it now.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

It was evidently caused by the rusty pulley-wheel which

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

The breeze which had sprung up some time before was producing strange creakings and raspings in the old timbers, and the pulley-wheel far above us clanked with a dismal repetitious sound, like the tolling of a cracked bell.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906