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Erratic :: Erratic (n.) Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder..

Water Clock :: Water clock () An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra..

Bullock :: Bullock (n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock..

Flock :: Flock (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock..

Half-wit :: Half-wit (n.) A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce.

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..

Bellwether :: Bellwether (n.) A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck..

Clockwork :: Clockwork (n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement..

Gaggle :: Gaggle (v. i.) A flock of wild geese.

Warlock :: Warlock (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

Rouet :: Rouet (n.) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

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..

Baseborn :: Baseborn (a.) Born out of wedlock.

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use..

Finger :: Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion..

Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..

Lock Stitch :: Lock stitch () A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch..

Mullock :: Mullock (n.) Rubbish; refuse; dirt.

Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..

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