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Drag :: Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing..

Pluck :: Pluck (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown..

Ampulla :: Ampulla (n.) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Libration Point :: Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body..

Tetraspaston :: Tetraspaston (n.) A machine in which four pulleys act together.

Repullulate :: Repullulate (v. i.) To bud again.

Tew :: Tew (v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex..

Crop :: Crop (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.

Pull :: Pull (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope..

Tow :: Tow (v. t.) To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope..

Face :: Face (n.) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face..

Tightener :: Tightener (n.) That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley..

Tweak :: Tweak (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose..

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

Cone Pulley :: Cone pulley () A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape..

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

Pull :: Pull (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

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