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

Spall :: Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge..

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

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

Intercept :: Intercept (v. t.) To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade..

Tailblock :: Tailblock (n.) A block with a tail. See Tail, 9..

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress..

Coak :: Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Dolt :: Dolt (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard..

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy..

Underhead :: Underhead (n.) A blockhead, or stupid person; a dunderhead..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

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

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

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

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