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Bit :: Bit (v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

Nomadize :: Nomadize (v. i.) To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

Mullock :: Mullock (n.) Rubbish; refuse; dirt.

Kecksy :: Kecksy (n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock..

Fish-block :: Fish-block (n.) See Fish-tackle.

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..

Stump :: Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.

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

Favor :: Favor (n.) Love locks.

Grisly :: Grisly (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter..

Forelock :: Forelock (n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

Stumblingly :: Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..

Flock :: Flock (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock..

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions..

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