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Bed :: Bed (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

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

Montoir :: Montoir (n.) A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.

Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

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..

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n..

Stockjobber :: Stockish (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

Pillar-block :: Pillar-block (n.) See under Pillow.

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper..

Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

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

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

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Lizard :: Lizard (n.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Block :: Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat..

Doltish :: Doltish (a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown..

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

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation..

Top-block :: Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast..

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