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Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Sasse :: Sasse (n.) A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable..

Charlock :: Charlock (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock..

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

Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight..

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

Flock :: Flock (n.) A lock of wool or hair.

Gablock :: Gablock (n.) A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock..

Gulf :: Gulf (n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

Henware :: Henware (n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks..

Locken :: Locken (obs. p. p.) of Lock.

Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

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

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

Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..

Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..

Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

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