A tool, consisting of a set of wheels around which a rope is led, meant to lift or move a load more lightly.
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Examples for "block "
Examples for "block "
1 See that new cell block they're building right beside the golf course?
2 This silver block with attached chain is a good case in point.
3 However, block liner trains, which are booked by individual companies, will continue.
4 Further controls allow people to block particular tracking systems while allowing others.
5 On Sunday Austria's foreign minister threatened to block EU negotiations with Turkey.
1 You must lower me down in the basket attached to the pulley .
2 The result will be the number of revolutions of the driven pulley
3 You tried that problem 12 times; tweaked your finger, pulled a pulley .
4 The prisoners are fed by means of two baskets on a pulley .
5 Remove the bearing on the pulley side, and enlarge the hole slightly.
1 There were swift actions, too: a Kanaka crawled out upon the bowsprit to make taut a slack stay, while two others with pulley - blocks swarmed aloft.
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