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Oppilate :: Oppilate (v. t.) To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.

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

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

Knockstone :: Knockstone (n.) A block upon which ore is broken up.

Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..

Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) A stupid fellow; a blockhead.

Trawlwarp :: Trawlwarp (n.) A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet..

Top :: Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting..

Lurdan :: Lurdan (a.) Stupid; blockish.

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

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block..

Nave :: Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob..

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..

Embar :: Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

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

Blockaded :: Blockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Blockad.

Fid :: Fid (n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.

Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..

Fortilage :: Fortilage (n.) A little fort; a blockhouse.

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