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   Pul·ley

   /ˈpo͝olē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a wheel with a grooved rim around which a cord passes. It acts to change the direction of a force applied to the cord and is chiefly used (typically in combination) to raise heavy weights.
   • ▪ (on a bicycle) a wheel with a toothed rim around which the chain passes.
   • ▪ a wheel or drum fixed on a shaft and turned by a belt, used especially to increase speed or power.

   verb

   • 1. hoist with a pulley: "the tree house was built on the ground and pulleyed into the branches"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French polie, probably from a medieval Greek diminutive of polos ‘pivot, axis’.

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