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Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping..

Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) A blockhead; a lout.

Lurdan :: Lurdan (n.) A blockhead.

Glut :: Glut (n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

Daff :: Daff (n.) A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull..

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

Patch :: Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting..

Obstruent :: Obstruent (a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine..

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Dizzard :: Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.].

Last :: Last (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed..

Bed :: Bed (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) A pillow block; a low housing.

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.

Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..

Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.

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