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Render :: Render (v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way..

Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Blockage :: Blockage (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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

Mome :: Mome (n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead..

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

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

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

Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

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

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Obstruent :: Obstruent (a.) Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine..

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

Phototype :: Phototype (n.) A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained..

Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..

Pillar-block :: Pillar-block (n.) See under Pillow.

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..

Daff :: Daff (n.) A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

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

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