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Fair-leader :: Fair-leader (n.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope..

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

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..

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

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

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

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

Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Trig :: Trig (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid..

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

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..

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

Growthead :: Growthead (n.) A lazy person; a blockhead.

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

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

Blockheaded :: Blockheaded (a.) Stupid; dull.

Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..

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