Laufrolle — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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.
• shive noun A slice, especially of bread.

Senses

Laufrolle is used for these senses in English:

• 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).
• sheave A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
• shive (obsolete) A sheave.

shive — full definition

1. noun A slice, especially of bread.
2. noun A beam or plank of split wood.
3. noun A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

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