单词 | pulley-block |
例句 | What if the rope carried away or the pulley-block was defective? With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z He ordered two men to go up to the cross-trees with a pulley-block; they rove a line through, and, hoisting up buckets of water, saturated all the canvas. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Pull′ey-block, a shell containing one or more sheaves, the whole forming a pulley; Pull′ey-shell, the casing of a pulley-block. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The word is used in various senses, e.g. the block upon which people were beheaded, the block or mould upon which a hat is shaped, a pulley-block, a printing-block, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In the end Jack manufactured a new pulley-block and after that the foolish thing worked charmingly every other time. The Crimson Sweater And see this fellow kick off on the free pulley-block and come sliding down. Careers of Danger and Daring Rusted in their sockets, they resisted him but he spied a pulley-block within reach and used it as a hammer. Blackbeard: Buccaneer There is a block, what they call a single pulley-block, and this stouter rope is doubled through it. The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play I jumped for it, but was too late, for the cord ran like lightning through the pulley-block, and the heavy mass fell forward from its own weight. Dracula's Guest |
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