Word: pulleys
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...about ten feet long. To the bottom . . . I attached a light rope which I put through a pulley attached to a stone which served as an anchor. The pulley line was about 100 ft. long and was manipulated from the shore...
...possible from an open space in the square's centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
...Gasoline engines of course are not as inconvenient in this respect, but for use in hoisting large weights they are bad in that they start up very rapidly, a fact that necessitates an extremely strong cable to take care of the inertia of the weights being lifted. In the pulley system that will probably be used four ropes are utilized to support the weight, and the result is that a total length of 600 feet of cable must be wound up by the hoisting engine...
...Monocle," one-eyed racehorse owned by Sir Charles Pulley: the Ashley stakes at Newmarket, England...
Eventually, stiff, sore, weak from twelve days' abstaining from solid food, Mr. Kelly came down. First he kissed his 19-year-old bride of six months, who had kept watch on the hotel roof, and hoisted up supplies on a pulley system. Then he prepared to exercise the cramped fingers of his right hand in the pleasant task of signing the vaudeville contract promised as the fruit of his labors...