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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..

Horologiographer :: Horologiographer (n.) A maker of clocks, watches, or dials..

Flight :: Flight (n.) A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows..

Scry :: Scry (v.) A flock of wild fowl.

Greenfish :: Greenfish (n.) See Bluefish, and Pollock..

Reach :: Reach (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land..

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

Glib :: Glib (n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes..

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.

Four-o''clock :: Four-o'clock (n.) The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

Hummock :: Hummock (n.) A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface..

Whisp :: Whisp (n.) A flock of snipe.

Oar :: Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom..

Gate :: Gate (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius)..

Heelpost :: Heelpost (n.) The quoin post of a lock gate.

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

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

Modillion :: Modillion (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances..

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