They used a pulley and a chain to lift the engine from the car. From LearnThat.org.
Fixed to the pulley was a long rope, which was hand-held. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Story Online - Chapter 2] Reference
Across the batten hung a pulley and over the pulley was a rope. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Murder]
It worked on a principle called the pulley-and-counter-weight principle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The pulley is the only part of the assembly that had to be drawn in two dimensions as a project requirement. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Typically, the application includes some kind of pulley system or sheave with ropes or wires. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
My pain was coming from near the palm of my hand where my middle finger in my palm ... called a pulley tendon. ". From Wordnik.com. [Channel3000.com - Local News] Reference
Do you think we can construct some kind of pulley system? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Revolutions of driving pulley per min 200 190 185 170. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Revs. per minute of driving pulley 218 180 173 162 160 125. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
A pulley over the vat to draw out the rod or net is convenient. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
Dealers will replace the tension adjuster pulley free of charge. From Wordnik.com. [Recalls: Suzuki Grand Vitara and XL-7, Volkswagen Routan] Reference
Diameter and face of driving pulley 20×3½ 20×4½ 24×5½ 28×6½. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The pulley you inquired about, I look upon as the greatest invention. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Figure 300 represents a Medart pulley, constructed by the Hartford Steam. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Running on pulley wheels, on this stout, tight rope, is the "breeches buoy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
Guide bolts from one pulley to another, arrangement of idle pulleys to, 264. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
By means of it they draw up the small pulley, and hook it on the window-sill. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
pulleys, arrangement of idle, to guide bolts from one pulley to another, 264. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
I live in Edinburgh in a modern flat with no room for a pulley for drying clothes. From Wordnik.com. [What's the most eco-friendly way to dry my laundry indoors?] Reference
The rope passed through a pulley which was firmly fixed to the top of the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Of all fixed apparatus in use the pulley weight stands easily first in importance. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
A 15-HP. engine operated the hoist by one pulley and the mixer by the other pulley. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The 3 in. pulley on the motor was connected to a 6 in. pulley on the line shafting. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
It was led up to a roller pulley and it disappeared into a maze of tubes in the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Maids a'Milking] Reference
It was not connected as far as Lila May could see or sense to any standard pulley system. From Wordnik.com. [The Dadaist] Reference
When the next to the last man reached the ground, by mistake he pulled the rope from the pulley. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"Cut it off above the last crotch, as we shall want that part to attach the top pulley between.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
Four tangential slots (C) are cut into the perimeter of the pulley (B), and in each is a hardened steel roller (D). From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
If the front of the chest is full and the back or side chest deficient, the pupil is set to work on the giant pulley. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Badly injured, he returned to the United States with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star and took a job at a pulley factory. From Wordnik.com. [Troubled ‘From Day One’] Reference
Behind him, a pen attached to a motorized pulley system was executing one of Mr. Perich's "machine drawings" on an expanse of white paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Symphony You Can Take With You] Reference
Local mountain guides are employed to take clients up and down the mountains safely using a rope and harness pulley-system, called a belay. From Wordnik.com. [Christoph A. Geiseler: Life and Death in the French Alps] Reference
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