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Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops..

Saddle :: Saddle (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar..

Blocking Course :: Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

Lurdan :: Lurdan (a.) Stupid; blockish.

Noodle :: Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

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..

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

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

Lurdan :: Lurdan (n.) A blockhead.

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

Snatch Block :: Snatch block () a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

Dunderhead :: Dunderhead (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.

Last :: Last (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed..

Unreeve :: Unreeve (v. t.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like..

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..

Steeving :: Steeve (n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly..

Patch :: Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting..

Stop :: Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..

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