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   pulley

   /ˈpʊli/

   noun

   • 1. a wheel with a grooved rim around which a cord passes, which acts to change the direction of a force applied to the cord and is used to raise heavy weights.
   • ▪ a wheel or drum fixed on a shaft and turned by a belt, used for the application or transmission of 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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