Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wheel or disk with a grooved rim, especially one used as a pulley.
- transitive verb To collect and bind into a sheaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grooved wheel or disk on which a sliding door is carried upon a rail or track.
- noun The disk or wheel over which a window-rope or -chain passes to the sash-weight.
- noun The circular disk or body of an eccentric such as is used to operate the valves of steam-engines.
- noun A slice, as of bread; a cut.
- noun A grooved wheel in a block, mast, yard, etc., on which a rope works; the wheel of a pulley; a shiver. See cut under
block . - noun A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
- To bring together into sheaves; collect into a sheaf or into sheaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.
- transitive verb To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
wheel having agroove in therim for arope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of apulley . - verb to
gather and bind into a sheaf
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One could generate far more energy by never walking down stairs; instead of walking down stairs, one would have a rope attached to a sheave, which is attached to an armature, which would act as brake to slow descent when one would ride down the rope to lower levels.
POOPTRICITY: Want Electricity? Flush Your Turbine Toilet! | Inhabitat 2008
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The front trolley-wheel, loose from long wear, had jumped the cable, and the cable was now jammed tightly between the wheel and the sheave-block.
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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 in which we were swathed.
Chapter 25 2010
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Each slender sheave of light is bound at the base for an elegant effect that emits a shower of warm light.
LED Constellation Chandelier by Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn | Inhabitat 2008
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One of these ends will be passed over a very big pulley or sheave at the bows, passed six times round a big barrel or drum; which will be turned round by a steam engine on deck, and thus wind up the cable, while the Elba slowly steams ahead.
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He got to the top and found the problem: the wooden pin on which the sheave turned had bent, jamming the flanges sideways in the groove.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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He rove the halyard through the hole and over the greased sheave.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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For the past few days its sheave—the wooden wheel over which the rope passed—had stuck, the first sign when a block starts to deform.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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The belly straightened in the lines, the sheave wheels squealed, and the timber grating slid ponderously down the bank into the river.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Only because of its width it gets the form of a very flat cylinder, a sheave.
2. Types of milling tools to be applied Dieter Frank 1990
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