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Sheave  n.  A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
Sheave hole, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sheave" Quotes from Famous Books



... word "hard-a-lee" was passed forward to me from man to man; and the Ghost heeled about on the port tack with practically no noise at all. And what little there was,—the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two,—was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London



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