Definition of block

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Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

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Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape..
Sumpitan :: Sumph (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.
Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.
Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..
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..
Dizzard :: Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.].
Montoir :: Montoir (n.) A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade..
Woodenly :: Woodenly (adv.) Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.
Funge :: Funge (n.) A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) A pillow block; a low housing.
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block..
Lurdan :: Lurdan (n.) A blockhead.
Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..
Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by..
Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..
Leader :: Leader (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..
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..
Blockade :: Blockade (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
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