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Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Blockheaded :: Blockheaded (a.) Stupid; dull.

Blockheadism :: Blockheadism (n.) That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.

Blocking :: Blocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloc.

Blocking :: Blocking (n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks..

Blocking :: Blocking (n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily..

Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Blocklike :: Blocklike (a.) Like a block; stupid.

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Fish-block :: Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle.

Gablock :: Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock..

Oblocutor :: Oblocutor (n.) A disputer; a gainsayer.

Pillar-block :: Pillar-block (n.) See under Pillow.

Plumber Block :: Plumber block () A pillow block.

Snatch Block :: Snatch block () a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

Stumbling-block :: Stumbler (n.) One who stumbles.

Tailblock :: Tailblock (n.) A block with a tail. See Tail, 9..

Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..