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Juggle :: "Juggle (n.) A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.

Euphroe :: Euphroe (n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up..

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

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

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

Doltish :: Doltish (a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown..

Block Tin :: Block tin () See under Tin.

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

Fish-tackle :: Fish-tackle (n.) A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

Oppilate :: Oppilate (v. t.) To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Die :: Die (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing..

Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..

Blocking :: Blocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloc.

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

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver..

Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..

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

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