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pulleying

pulleying is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about pulleying

What is pulleying the present participle and gerund of?
Pulleying is the present participle and gerund of pulley.

Words near pulleying in the dictionary

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

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