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Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..

Dogshore :: Dogshore (n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.

Strap :: Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

Chock :: Chock (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

Barricade :: Barricade (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access..

Block :: Block (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each..

Authotype :: Authotype (n.) A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.

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

Graft :: Graft (n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Dolt :: Dolt (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard..

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

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

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

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

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

Brace :: Brace (n.) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon..

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

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