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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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Cat
·noun A cat o' nine tails. ·see <<Below>>.
II. Cat ·noun A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up ...
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cat
A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman.
to cat
To vomit from drunkenness.
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cat, native
n.
a small carnivorous marsupial,of the genus Dasyurus. The so-called native cat is nota cat at all...
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cat
A ship formed on the Norwegian model, and usually employed in the coal and timber trade. These vesse...
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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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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:
«`What a nic...
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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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built-block
Synonymous with made-block (which see). The lower masts of large ships are built or made.
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bushed-block
See coak.
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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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Cat-eyed
·adj Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
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Cat-harpin
·noun ·see Cat-harping.
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Cat-harping
·noun One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to gi...
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Cat-hole
·noun One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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Cat-rigged
·adj Rigged like a catboat.
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Cat-salt
·noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
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Cat-silver
·noun <<Mica>>.
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Cat-tail
·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...
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Gib-cat
·noun A male cat, ·esp. an old one. ·see lst Gib. ·noun.
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Hell-cat
·noun A witch; a hag.
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Sea cat
·- The wolf fish.
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Tib-cat
·noun A female cat.
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Wild-cat
·adj Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
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Cat Alley
North out of Long Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). "Catt Alley" (Stryp...
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cat-heads
A Woman's breasts.
SEA PHRASE.
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cat call
A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It deriv...
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cat lap
Tea, called also scandal broth.
See scandal broth.
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cat match
When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
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cat sticks
Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat.
See trap sticks.
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cat whipping
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
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cheshire cat
He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.
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gib cat
A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancho...
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hell cat
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman.
See termagant and vixen.
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cat-bird
n.
In America the name is given to Mimus carolinensis, a mocking thrush, which like theAustralian b...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cat-fish
n.
The name is applied in the OldWorld to various fishes of the family Siluridae, andalso to the Wo...
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native cat
n.
See cat.
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tiger-cat
n.
special name appliedto the Common and Spotted-tailed Native Cat.See under Cat.
1832. J. Bischof...
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cat-tails
Hares-tail rush (erophorum vaginatum). So called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. This name is ...
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cat-ham'd
fumbling, awkward, without dexterity. Exmoor.
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whern-cat
a queen-cat, or female cat. QUEEN, in Saxon, was used to signify the female ; ex. g. QUEEN FUGOL, a ...
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wild-cat
the pole-cat. Lane.
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cat-beam
This, called also the beak-head beam, is the broadest beam in the ship, and is generally made of two...
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cat-fall
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted.
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cat-fish
A name for the sea-wolf (Anarrhicas lupus).
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cat-gut
A term applied to the sea-laces or Fucus filum. (See sea-catgut.)
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cat-harpings
, or catharpin legs
Ropes under the tops at the lower end of the futtock-shrouds, serving to brace...
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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cat-holes
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...
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cat-hook
A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of t...
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cat-lap
A common phrase for tea or weak drink.
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cat-rig
A rig which in smooth water surpasses every other, but, being utterly unsuited for sea or heavy weat...
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cat-rope
A line for hauling the cat-hook about: also cat-back-rope, which hauls the block to the ring of the ...
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cat-stopper
, or cathead-stopper
A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...
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cat-tackle
A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...
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sea-cat
A name of the wolf-fish, Anarrhicas lupus.
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thieves' cat
A cat o' nine tails having knots upon it, and only used for the punishment of theft.
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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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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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cat harping fashion
Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM.
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cat in pan
To turn cat in pan, to change sides or parties; supposed originally to have been to turn CATE or CAK...
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whipping the cat
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
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cherry-coloured cat
A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red.
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kit-cat club
A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. m...
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to shoot the cat
To vomit from excess of liquor; called also catting.
To vomit from drunkenness.
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cat-tail grass
Herds grass, or timothy.
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wild cat bank
One of the various terms applied at the West to some of the irresponsible banks of the country. A ba...
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cat the anchor
When the cat is hooked and "cable enough" veered and stoppered, the anchor hangs below the cat-head,...
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combing the cat
The boatswain, or other operator, running his fingers through the cat o' nine tails, to separate the...
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fore cat-harpings
See cat-harpings.
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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.
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Cat o' nine tails
·- ·see under <<Cat>>.
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
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cat and bagpipean society
A society which met at their office in the great western road: in their summons, published in the da...
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cat of nine tails
A scourge composed of nine strings of whip-cord, each string having nine knots.
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cat-with-two-tails
an earwig. Northum.
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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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cat o' nine tails
An instrument of punishment used on board ships in the navy; it is commonly of nine pieces of line o...
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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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Cat and Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate
See Catherine Wheel Alley.
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to see how the cat jumps
A metaphorical expression meaning, to discover the secrets or designs of others.
We also say, in th...
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