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

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Reentering :: Reentering (n.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored..

Block :: Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way..

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

Blockader :: Blockader (n.) One who blockades.

Clog :: Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion..

Glut :: Glut (n.) A block used for a fulcrum.

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

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

Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..

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

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure..

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.

Noodle :: Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..

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