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

Blocking :: Blocking (n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily..

Sumpitan :: Sumph (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

Dizzard :: Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.].

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

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

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Thickskull :: Thickskull (n.) A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull..

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

Barricade :: Barricade (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access..

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

Euphroe :: Euphroe (n.) A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up..

Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

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

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

Stumblingly :: Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error..

Mutule :: Mutule (n.) A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta..

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