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Block
BLOCK, n.
1. A heavy piece of timber or wood, usually with one plain surface;or it is rectangular, and rather thick than long.
2. Any mass of matter with an extended surface; as a block of marble, a piece rough from the quarry.
3. A massy body, solid and heavy; a mass of wood, iron, or other metal, with at least one plain surface, such as artificers use.
4. The wood on which criminals are beheaded.
5. Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; hindrance; obstacle.
6. A piece of wood in which a pulley runs; used also for the pulley, or the block itself and the sheaves, or wheels.
7. A blockhead; a stupid fellow.
8. Among cutters in wood, a form made of hard wood, on which they cut figures in relief with knives,chisels, etc.
9. In falconry, the perch whereon a bird of prey is kept.
BLOCK, v.t. To inclose or shut up, so as to hinder egress or passage; to stop up; to obstruct,by placing obstacles in the way; often followed by up; as, to block up a town,or a road.
block appears in definitions for these words:
Anvil Ass-head Beating Belay Belaying Beleaguer Beleaguring Block Blockade Blockading Blockheadly Blockhouse Blocklike Boll Box Brace Bucking-stool Buoy Burton Bush Butchers-broom Button-wood Buzzard Cap Carriage Cat-block Chain Choke Chopping-block Chump Clodpoll Clotpoll Compass Connusant Constructively Crow-foot Daff Deaden Deadwood Dizzard Dolt Doltish Dull Dull-head Dullard Embar Fortilage Guilt Half-wit Herisson Hoist Horseblock Invest Investment Jackass Jigger Jobbernowl Jolthead Loggerhead Loop Lurdan Marline Money Nincompoop Numps Oaf Obstruct Obstructed Obstructing Obstruent Pendant Pillow Pin Print Pulley Reef-tackle Reeve Rime Rock Round Rounding Run Running-rigging Saddle Scandal Sheave Shoe Shut Siege Snatch Snipe Sot Spoke-shave Stock Stockish Strike-block Strop Stub Stumbling-block Stumbling-stone Swivel-hook Tackle Thickskin Thickskull Tin Top Tracing Tungless Unreeve Winding-tackle
Anvil Ass-head Beating Belay Belaying Beleaguer Beleaguring Block Blockade Blockading Blockheadly Blockhouse Blocklike Boll Box Brace Bucking-stool Buoy Burton Bush Butchers-broom Button-wood Buzzard Cap Carriage Cat-block Chain Choke Chopping-block Chump Clodpoll Clotpoll Compass Connusant Constructively Crow-foot Daff Deaden Deadwood Dizzard Dolt Doltish Dull Dull-head Dullard Embar Fortilage Guilt Half-wit Herisson Hoist Horseblock Invest Investment Jackass Jigger Jobbernowl Jolthead Loggerhead Loop Lurdan Marline Money Nincompoop Numps Oaf Obstruct Obstructed Obstructing Obstruent Pendant Pillow Pin Print Pulley Reef-tackle Reeve Rime Rock Round Rounding Run Running-rigging Saddle Scandal Sheave Shoe Shut Siege Snatch Snipe Sot Spoke-shave Stock Stockish Strike-block Strop Stub Stumbling-block Stumbling-stone Swivel-hook Tackle Thickskin Thickskull Tin Top Tracing Tungless Unreeve Winding-tackle
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