Example Sentences
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Thirty-one inches above the headpiece is a pulley reeved with a rope with handles on one end, ankle straps on the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ropes were reeved through pulleys in the ceiling, for raising the wire-ball device to permit entrance.
From The Affair of the Brains by Gilmore, Anthony
The numeral is attached by means of two staples with leather thongs reeved through on the reverse of the plate.
From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan
The rudder, and great part of the false keel, were carried away; and the rudder would have been lost, but for Sir Thomas's timely exertion in getting a hawser reeved through it.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by Harrison, James
He lay upon the floor of Hooven's house, bare to the waist, bandages of adhesive tape reeved about his abdomen and shoulder.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank
