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No-man''s Land :: No-man's land () A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for..

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

Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

Blockage :: Blockage (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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

Nog :: Nog (n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver..

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

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

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..

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

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..

Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..

Socle :: Socle (n.) A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth..

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

Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..

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