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Definition of block

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Block (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor..

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

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..

Vase :: Vase (n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche..

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

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

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

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

Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..

Block :: Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.

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.

Clog :: Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion..

Underhead :: Underhead (n.) A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead..

Euphroe :: Euphroe (n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up..

Block :: Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

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..

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..