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Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

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

Block :: Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not..

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

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..

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

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..

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

Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Stock :: Stock (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

Bushhammer :: Bushhammer (v. t.) To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock..

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

Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

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..

Buzzard :: Buzzard (n.) A blockhead; a dunce.

Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.

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