pulley

Etymology
From, , from , , from , plural mistaken for the feminine of neuter , from , diminutive of , from. Associated with by folk etymology.

Noun

 * 1)  One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).

Translations

 * Arabic: مَنْجُور
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ,
 * Bulgarian:, скрипе́ц
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: trisse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: trócola,, roudana, carradeixo, rinchadeira
 * Georgian: ჭოჭონაქი
 * German:, Seilrolle, Seilscheibe, Laufrolle, , Riemenscheibe, , Riemenrad
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τροχιλεῖον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: trissa, talía
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ulóg, puilín
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 도르래
 * Latin: trochlea
 * Macedonian: ма́кара, скри́пец
 * Maori: tauru
 * Mon: ရံက်
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, trisse
 * Ottoman Turkish: مقره
 * Papiamentu: katròl
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чекрк
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kladka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tangkalag,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  To raise or lift by means of a pulley.