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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pulley .
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Examples
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A geared and pulleyed davit at the other end dragged the iron maw and its steel spoon along the bottom gathering in mud.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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A geared and pulleyed davit at the other end dragged the iron maw and its steel spoon along the bottom gathering in mud.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Instantly, the decorated window-shade pulleyed up to allow more light to shine into the room.
Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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The meat was soon gathered up; and Basil, who though somewhat chagrined was still confident of his plan, once more looped it in the lasso, and pulleyed it up.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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He now pulleyed up the meat -- until it was ten feet or more from the ground -- and then fastened his rope to a log.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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Somewhere over the rainbow and a Procol Harem line, I won't be your man at all if I can't be your salty dog as he pulleyed a rope trajectory over our heads, perfectly marking his scanning of the horizon and his climbing up into the crow's nest to find the next 25 years.
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Somewhere over the rainbow and a Procol Harem line, I won't be your man at all if I can't be your salty dog as he pulleyed a rope trajectory over our heads, perfectly marking his scanning of the horizon and his climbing up into the crow's nest to find the next 25 years.
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The astragalus is 'double-pulleyed' with a trough-shaped trochlea for the tibia and an opposing trochlea for the navicular.
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