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/blɑk ənd tˈækəl/ Listen

Block and tackle

noun

Pulley blocks with associated rope or cable.

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"Block and tackle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bruce. "We're the Boy Scout Engineers. Just loan me some of your canvas men who know how to rig a block and tackle and we'll have the elephant on his way to St. Cloud by daylight ...

— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump

... came to his feet, slowly, as if hoisted from above by an invisible block and tackle. All in a moment, his face had become ...

— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... the schoolboy's weekly carnival before Lent, he directed his walk to a certain fishing village, the nearest on the coast, about three miles off, and there succeeded in hiring a spare boat-spar with a block and tackle. The spar he ran out, through a notch of the battlement, near the sheds, and having stayed it well back, rove the rope through the block at the peak of it, and lowered it with a hook at the end. A moment ...

— Donal Grant • George MacDonald