макара — meaning in English

English meaning

• bobbin noun A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
• pulley noun A simple machine consisting of a wheel with a grooved rim over which a rope or chain runs, used to lift or move loads.
• reel noun A cylindrical device on which thread, film, cable, or fishing line is wound.
• spool noun A cylinder that thread, wire, film, or cable is wound around.
• winch noun A mechanical device with a drum and crank (or motor) used to haul or hoist a rope or cable.
• windlass noun Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights

Senses

макара is used for these senses in English:

• bobbin A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
• pulley (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).
• reel A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
• spool A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
• winch A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
• windlass An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

bobbin — full definition

1. noun A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
2. noun In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
3. noun The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
4. noun A fine cord or narrow braid.

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