The next stage entailed toppling-over each girder into the river by means of hand-winches and pulley-blocks.
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Pulley block
Synonyms for "pulley block" (4 found)
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Verb(1 words)
move blocks
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2 entriesmachinesimple machine
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In 1799 he [Marc Brunel] designed a machine to make pulley blocks for the British Navy ... who turned out not to be good payers.
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