A curved piece of timber with a sheave at its outer end, which projects over the boat's stern, while the inner end is shipped into a cleat on each side of the bottom of the boat, for weighing anchors when needed.
The term dead seems to have been used because there is no revolving sheave to lessen the friction.
A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitæ sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, thereby preventing the sheave from wearing, without adding much to its weight.
A rope rove through a sheave or block on the fore-topmast head, for hoisting the jib.
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
It is apparently derived from the circular motion of the rope about the sheave or pulley, through which it passes.
The rope may also pass over a sheavein another block that is fixed.
There is a four-sheave pulley block above and a three-sheave block below, but in order to trace the rope clearly the pulley wheels or sheaves are represented as of different diameters.
Opening my eyes, I thrust at the opening of the sheave with the end of the line; but it was knotted, and would not go through.
The water was smooth as oil, and so still that not a creaking rope or rattling sheave disturbed the deathlike silence.
Pieces of oak, fitted to the sides of a vessel, abaft the fore chains, with a sheave in them, to board the main tack to.
The sheave is generally strengthened by letting in a piece of iron or brass at the centre, called a bush.
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper.
Also, a spar with a roller orsheave at its end, used for fishing the anchor, called a fish-davit.
Mast from deck to pin of topsailsheave shall not exceed 25 feet 9 inches.
From deck to pin of jib halliardsheave or pin of block shall not exceed 23 ft.
It is set up by means of a small pulley, the end of the rope coming inboard through a sheave in the boom, or one fastened to its side.
Each of these four ropes then passed through a sheave on deck, two on each side, in an iron frame, properly inclined to give a clear lead.
The iron sheave on the stem for the anchor-chain was large, with a high cheek, and the comfort of this was well appreciated in weighing anchor at night or in a swell.
The sheave was located back near the boiler, and in guiding the machine it was operated by a hand-wheel placed above the platform, within easy reach of the engineer.
The model which was completed in 1790 had four wheels, the front pair being pivoted at the center and controlled by a horizontal sheave and rope.
Around the sheave passed a loop of chain, one end of which was fixed, the other running over guide sheaves and terminating at the crane arm with a lifting hook.
Backmann projected two cylindrical cars that traveled in parallel shafts and balanced one another from opposite ends of common cables that passed over a sheave in the upperworks.
The car, attached to the free ends of the cables, was hauled up as the piston drew the two sheave assemblies apart.
As the name implies, the cables were not wrapped on a drum but passed, from the car, over a grooved sheave directly on the motor shaft, the other ends being attached to the counterweights.
Water, admitted to a horizontal cylinder, displaced a piston and rod to which a sheave was attached.
Sheave hole, a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.
Gie me a sheave o your white bread, A bottle o your wine; For I hae fasted for your sake Fully these lang days nine.
O ae sheave o your bread, true-love, An ae glass o your wine, For I hae fasted for your sake These fully days is nine.
Faire maide, white and redde, 740 Combe me smooth, and stroke my head; And every haire a sheave shall be, And every sheave a goulden tree.
This chain passes around a sheave which turns on a post projecting from the center of the slate panel.
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.
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.
As soon as each sheave is used the hogs are lowered into the scalding- tub, which is about fourteen feet long, four feet wide, and three and a half feet deep.
The traction rope is carried over the sheave at the top, then let fall and passed round a sheave in a block below.
Let the rope be put in round the sheave of this block, and brought back to the block that is fastened at the top of the machine.
Round its sheave the rope should be passed, and then should go down from the top, and back to the windlass, which is at the bottom of the machine, and there be fastened.
Then it is brought back to a sheave at the bottom of the upper block, and so it goes down to the lower block, where it is fastened through a hole in that block.
Then the length of the corrected base-line is multiplied by the height of the mast, taken from the deck to the sheave on the topmast, and the result is divided by two.
The borer D is adapted to bore the hole for the centre pin in a direction exactly perpendicular to the surface resting against the three screws; the other, at E, perforates the holes for the commencement of the sheave holes.
Such rope bands are not only very pliable for their strength, which protects the heart of the rope from breaking, but as they lap upon themselves, a simple sheave serves as a rope-barrel.
The end of the rope, including the eye-splice, pulled through the sheave and fell with a thud upon the deck, the men scattering right and left to avoid it in its descent.
The wire hawser had "jumped" the sheave at the end of the derrick that, projecting at an angle of forty-five degrees, terminated fifty feet or more above the deck of the lighter.
The distance between the center of the eccentric sheave and the center of the shaft is called the throw of the eccentric or the eccentricity.
The shell is now completed, and the visitor is next shown the different processes in forming the sheave and the pin.
By the seventh operation, the central hole in the coak for the pin, on which the sheave turns, is drilled out.
A little gin-pole and light tackle allowed him to erect a heavier tripod of steel beams; it hoisted the big sheave block into place, and gave Smithy's two hands the strength of twenty to rig a temporary hoist.
Beyond was the massive sheave block; the cables ran dizzily down to the concrete drilling floor so far below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
