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Knockstone :: Knockstone (n.) A block upon which ore is broken up.

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

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

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..

Stump :: Stumbling-stone (n.) A stumbling-block.

Swallowed :: Swallow (n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

Patch :: Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting..

Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo

Blockading :: Blockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blockad.

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

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling..

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model..

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

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..

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..

Wantwit :: Wantwit (n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

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

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..

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