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pulley

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
pulley

Plural
pulleys

A fixed pulley assembly
  1. (countable) (engineering) A pulley is a wheel with a grooved rim around which a rope passes. It acts to change the direction of a force that is applied to the rope and is used to raise weights.

Verb

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Plain form
pulley

Third-person singular
pulleys

Past tense
pulleyed

Past participle
pulleyed

Present participle
pulleying

  1. (transitive) If you pulley something, you lift it using a pulley.