Simple Rope Lifting Mechanism
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Ancient Egypt, Group 192, Puzzle 5 (Nile Flooding).
Question is: Simple Rope Lifting Mechanism
and the answer is: PULLEY
Word Meaning:
PULLEY — (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
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