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Bear :: Bear (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

Dullhead :: Dullhead (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

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

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

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

Mome :: Mome (n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead..

Blockader :: Blockader (n.) A vessel employed in blockading.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

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

Stockjobber :: Stockish (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade..

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

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

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

Clodpate :: Clodpate (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

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