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

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

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

Jackass :: Jackass (n.) A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead.

Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

Fair-leader :: Fair-leader (n.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Cittern-head :: Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

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

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo

Tray :: Tray (n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc..

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

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Beleaguer :: Beleaguer (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

Block Tin :: Block tin () See under Tin.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure..

Strophanthus :: Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it..

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