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Built
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Build>>.
II. Built ·noun Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a shi...
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built
A prefix to denote the construction of a vessel, as carvel or clinker-built, bluff-built, frigate-bu...
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Block
·add. ·noun A block hole.
II. Block ·vt The pattern or shape of a hat.
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block
A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very use...
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block
I.
(In mechanics termed a pulley.) Blocks are flattish oval pieces of wood, with sheaves in them, ...
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block and block
The situation of a tackle when the blocks are drawn close together, so that the mechanical power bec...
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Air-built
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Clincher-built
·adj ·see Clinker-built.
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Clinker-built
·adj Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper e...
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Cloud-built
·adj Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
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Frigate-built
·adj Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
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High-built
·adj Of lofty structure; tall.
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Ice-built
·adj Loaded with ice.
II. Ice-built ·adj Composed of ice.
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Jerry-built
·adj Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
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Sea-built
·adj Built at, in, or by the sea.
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carvel-built
A vessel or boat, the planks of which are all flush and smooth, the edges laid close to each other, ...
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clinch-built
Clinker, or overlapping edges.
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clinker built
See clincherI
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fir-built
Constructed of fir.
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frigate-built
The disposition of the decks of such merchant ships as have a descent of some steps from the quarter...
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Belgian block
·add. ·- A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, ·esp. granite, used as a material for street pa...
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Block book
·- A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
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Block chain
·add. ·- A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted ...
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Block signal
·add. ·- One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block s...
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Block system
·add. ·- A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and ...
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Block tin
·- ·see under <<Tin>>.
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Cautionary block
·add. ·- A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by ...
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Fish-block
·noun ·see Fish-tackle.
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Pillar-block
·noun ·see under <<Pillow>>.
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Plumber block
·- A pillow block.
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Snatch block
·- a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
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Stumbling-block
·noun Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
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Top-block
·noun A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, —...
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block houses
Prisons, houses of correction, &c.
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upping block
(Called in some counties a leaping stock, in others a jossing block.) Steps for mounting a horse. He...
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydneyside Saxon,' vol. xii. p. 215:
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block-house
A small fort built of logs which project some six or eight feet over a wooden or stone foundation, f...
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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yu-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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yule-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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block-maker
A manufacturer of blocks.
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bushed-block
See coak.
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cat-block
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw...
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d-block
A lump of oak in the shape of a D, bolted to the ship's side in the channels to reeve the lifts thro...
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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fiddle-block
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper (see long-tackl...
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fly-block
The block spliced into the topsail-tye; it is large and flat, and sometimes double.
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hook-block
Any block, of iron or wood, strapped with a hook.
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jack-block
A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...
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monkey-block
A small single block strapped with a swivel. Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchan...
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notch-block
See snatch-block.
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rack-block
A range of sheaves cut in one piece of wood, for running ropes to lead through.
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cistern block
See sister block
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sister block
or cistern block
A turned cylindrical block having two sheave-holes, one above the other. It fits ...
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snatch-block
A single iron-bound block, with an opening in one side above the sheave, in which the bight of a rop...
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tail-block
A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...
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top-block
A large single block with an iron strop and hook, by which it is hooked into an eye-bolt under the l...
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treble-block
One fitted with three sheaves or rollers.
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tye-block
The block on the yard through which the tye is rove, and passes on to be secured at the mast-head. T...
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warping-block
A block made of ash or elm, used in rope-making for warping off yarn.
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british-built ship
Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...
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built-up guns
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
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block, on the
1) On the promenade above referred to.
1896. `The Argus,' July 17, p. 4. col. 7:
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chock-a-block
, or chock and block
Is the same with block-a-block and two-blocks (which see). When the lower blo...
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main-tack block
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to.
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nine-pin block
A block in that form, mostly used for a fair-leader under the cross-pieces of the forecastle and qua...
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strop-bound block
A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulde...
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jaw of a block
The space in the shell where the sheave revolves.
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score of a block, or of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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thick and thin block
, or fiddle-block.
A block having one sheave larger than the other, sometimes used for quarter-blo...
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square-sterned and british built
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen.
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eye of a block-strop
That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rig...
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