What does pulley block mean?

pulley block

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English

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"The next stage entailed toppling-over each girder into the river by means of hand-winches and pulley-blocks."
"In 1799 he [Marc Brunel] designed a machine to make pulley blocks for the British Navy ... who turned out not to be good payers."

pulley blocks (plural)

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