Differential pulley

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(Mach.)	A portable hoisting apparatus, the same in principle as the differential windlass.
	A hoisting pulley to which power is applied through a differential gearing.

See also: differential, differential

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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