Word Meanings - POLIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pulley. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to POLIVE)

• PULLEY
  A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.