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Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block..

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..

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

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

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.

Dullhead :: Dullhead (n.) A blockhead; a dolt.

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Buckler :: Buckler (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches..

Obstruct :: Obstruct (v. t.) To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body..

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..

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

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..

Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..

Block :: Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.

Cittern-head :: Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock..

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

Fortilage :: Fortilage (n.) A little fort; a blockhouse.

Nave :: Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob..

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

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