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Gablock :: Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock..

Blockader :: Blockader (n.) A vessel employed in blockading.

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

Stop :: Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..

Willock :: Willock (n.) The common guillemot.

Woodenness :: Woodenness (n.) Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.

Gymnosperm :: Gymnosperm (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm..

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

Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks..

Nab :: Nab (n.) The cock of a gunlock.

Fortilage :: Fortilage (n.) A little fort; a blockhouse.

Pinus :: Pinus (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

Tramroad :: Tramroad (n.) A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron..

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

Down :: Down (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

Earlock :: Earlock (n.) A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight..

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