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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..

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

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

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..

Open :: Open (a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter..

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

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

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

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

Dodipoll :: Dodipoll (n.) A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead.

Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) A blockhead; a lout.

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

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.

Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model..

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

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

Bed :: Bed (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

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