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Sumpitan :: Sumph (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

Tail :: Tail (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything..

Leader :: Leader (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

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

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Square :: Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..

Cut :: Cut (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts..

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

Coak :: Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not..

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

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..

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