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Found 2 hits - Term: rubbish pulley, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gin \gin\, n. a contraction of engine.
   1913 webster
   1. contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --chaucer.
      spenser.
      1913 webster

   2.
      a a machine for raising or moving heavy weights,
          consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the
          top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
      b mining a hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
          1913 webster

   3. a machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton
      gin.
      1913 webster

   note: the name is also given to an instrument of torture
         worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary
         sails.
         1913 webster

   gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel,
      over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin,
      rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.

   gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.
      

   gin race, or gin ring, the path of the horse when putting
      a gin in motion. --halliwell.

   gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers
      through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.

   gin wheel.
      a in a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through
          the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint.
      b mining the drum of a whim.
          1913 webster
see also:
gin block whip gin rubbish pulley monkey wheel gin power gin race 
gin ring gin saw gin wheel 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rubbish \rub"bish\, n. oe. robows, robeux, rubble, originally
   an old french plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably
   in the sense of trash; cf. it. robaccia trash, roba stuff,
   goods, wares, robe. thus, etymologically rubbish is the pl.
   of rubble. see robe, and cf. rubble.
   waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless
   stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or
   fallen buildings; ruins; d'ebris.
   1913 webster

         what rubbish and what offal             --shak.
   1913 webster

         he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. --dryden.
   1913 webster

   rubbish pulley. see gin block, under gin.
      1913 webster
see also:
robe rubble rubbish pulley gin block gin 

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