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

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.

Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Square :: Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets..

Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..

Sot :: Sot (n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

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

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..

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

Erratic :: Erratic (n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder..

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

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

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..

Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by..

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.

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