Noun: pulley
| Singular | pulley |
| Plural | pulleys |
Sample Sentences
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These pulleys […] placed collaterally. [1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:]
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Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt. [1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:]
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The steel haulage ropes have a breaking strain of 50 tons, and another pair passing around a pulley at the bottom connect the lower ends of the cars and act as tail or balance ropes. [1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:]
Nouns inflected like pulley
chimney,
honey,
attorney,
donkey,
galley,
monkey,
turkey,
pulley,
valley,
storey,
Etymology
From Middle English puly, poley, from Old French poulie, polie (“a pulley, windlass”), from Medieval Latin polidia, plural mistaken for the feminine of neuter polidium, from Ancient Greek πολίδιον (polídion, “little pivot”), diminutive of πόλος (pólos, “pivot, hinge, axis”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”). Associated with pull (verb) by folk etymology.
Verbs referencing "pulley"
Irish Nouns
puilín, Catalan Nouns
politja.