sheave's Usage Examples:

He recommends the practice of setting up corn in shocks, with two sheaves to cover eight, instead of ten sheaves as at present - probably owing to the straw being then shorter.

With this arrangement a single revolution of the upper sheave causes the endless chain to wind up the chain on one side by an amount irD, and to unwind an amount Ord on the other side, and in consequence the lower sheave is raised by 7r(D - d)/2.

Frames or blocks containing pulleys or sheaves are used in combination for lifting heavy weights.

She did not understand why he spoke with such admiration and delight of the farming of the thrifty and well- to-do peasant Matthew Ermishin, who with his family had carted corn all night; or of the fact that his (Nicholas') sheaves were already stacked before anyone else had his harvest in.

It happens when moduli of coherent sheaves over a K3 surface with a given Mukai vector coincide with this K3 surface.

At harvest the corn was cut high on the stalk with short sickles and put up in sheaves, after which it was carried to the threshing-floor and there trodden out by the hoofs of oxen.

Thus the Danleno is heaved tight to the top sheave of the gallows.

The rope, which is guided upon sheaves between the rails, is taken twice round the head pulley.

sheave of the block until forces are equalized.

"5) is fixed, and the other B is movable, and a rope or chain, with one end secured to one of the blocks at C, passes round the sheaves in a continuous coil, leaving a free end D at which the effort is applied.

No longer do we hear the thud of the mill engine nor the hum of the high-speed drum as it thrashes the sheaves.

A cord has one end made fast a to and wrapped round the barrel AE; it passes from A under the sheave FG, and has the other end wrapped round and made fast to the barrel BD.