pulley
Definitions
noun
One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving
These pulleys […] placed collaterally.
Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.
Annular ligament of the finger.
verb
To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
[a mine]is digg'd out with ease, being soft, and is between a white Clay and Chalk at first; but being pulley'd up with the open Air, it receives a crusty kind of hardness
name
A surname.
A hamlet in Bayston Hill parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4809).