Pulley

The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.

The river is six miles deep in some areas and the only way to cross it is using a pulley and a rope.

He drew his water, which was excellent, from a very deep natural well, above which he had set up a very simple pulley block.

Ziri asked Yazid if he could borrow his pulley.

We put the piano up here using a pulley.

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.

The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes.

[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