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

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

Half-wit :: Half-wit (n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

Snipe :: Snipe (n.) A fool; a blockhead.

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

Block :: Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops..

Thickskull :: Thickskull (n.) A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull..

Investment :: Investment (n.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded..

Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block..

Montoir :: Montoir (n.) A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.

Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..

Stub :: Stub (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..

Strophanthus :: Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.

Steeving :: Steeve (n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly..

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..

Saddle :: Saddle (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar..

Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..

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