Crossword-Solution: SHEAVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheave | v. | 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 | v. t. | To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHEAVE | anagram | HEAVES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SHEAVE (5)
Then there were the Boring Machines, and the Mortising Machine, of beautiful construction, for cutting the sheave-holes, furnished with numerous chisels, each making from 110 to 150 strokes a minute, and cutting at every stroke a chip as thick as pasteboard with the utmost precision.
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.
The ratio of speed between the sheave and turn-table is arranged by belt and properly sized pulleys, and the whole can be driven either by hand or by power.
The sheave merely serves as a guide to the tool in its path, and the lens may either be worked on the turn-table or upon a chuck attached to the tool rod.
This rope was wound seven times over the sheaves as above, and led upward and over a single-groove sheave which was operated by the piston of an air cylinder, and in this manner the pressure was applied to the rolls.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 53 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).