"rope" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The mountain station is an open construction with a wide pulley returning the pull rope and the anchorage of the four main cables.
- The culverin was not much to look upon: a mere tube of cast bronze, strapped to a wooden frame conveyed by a harness of pull ropes.
- People would have to hold on by pull ropes on the railings of the steps.
- It was held closed by a simple latch operated by a pull rope.
- Cursing in vapored breaths, he removed his heavy gloves with his teeth and began yanking on the manual pull ropes.
- An iron bell hung on the wall; she tugged on the pull rope, and the medieval clang slowly faded into the softer tick, tick of falling sleet.
- It groaned as it moved ... and lowered a cantilevered weight, which tugged a guy rope, which spun a flywheel, which rotated an axis, which turned a worm gear, which wound up the pull rope . . . Which broke.
- Taking a deep breath, he grabbed the pull rope and listened critically to the sound that reverberated through the cave.
- Thad and I shared the pull rope, and Gytha moved forward quickly and took up Lugard's hand to settle it on her shoulder, providing him with a crutch of willing flesh and bone and redoubtable spirit.
- The engine was started with a pull rope as standard, but there was an option of an electric starter.
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