Usually means: Wheel system for lifting loads.
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  1. pulley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pulley: Merriam-Webster
  3. pulley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pulley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pulley: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pulley: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pulley, pulley: Wordnik
  8. pulley: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pulley: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Pulley, pulley: Wiktionary
  11. pulley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pulley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pulley: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pulley: Dictionary.com
  15. pulley: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pulley: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pulley (band), Pulley (disambiguation), Pulley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pulley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pulley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pulley: Rhymezone
  21. Pulley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pulley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. pulley: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pulley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pulley: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pulley: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pulley: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Pulley: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pulley, pulley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pulley, pulley: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pulley: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See pulleying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (engineering, countable) 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).
verb:  (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
noun:  A surname.

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