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pulleyed

pulleyed is the simple past and past participle of pulley.

Meaning of pulley

Verb

pulley (third-person singular simple present pulleys, present participle pulleying, simple past and past participle pulleyed)

  1. (transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
    • [a mine]is digg'd out with ease, being soft, and is between a white Clay and Chalk at first; but being pulley'd up with the open Air, it receives a crusty kind of hardness1655, James Howell, “To Capt. Francis Bacon”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […]...

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Adjective

pulleyed (not comparable)

  1. Having a (specified kind or number of) pulley.
    • a double-pulleyed mechanism

Questions about pulleyed

What does pulleyed mean?
Pulleyed means having a (specified kind or number of) pulley.
What is pulleyed the simple past and past participle of?
Pulleyed is the simple past and past participle of pulley.
What part of speech is pulleyed?
Pulleyed is an adjective.

Words near pulleyed in the dictionary

  1. pulley plough
  2. pulley shell
  3. pulley shells
  4. pulley-plough
  5. Pulleyblank
  6. pulleyed
  7. pulleying
  8. pulleyless
  9. pulleylike
  10. pulleys
  11. pulli

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