fiddle-block

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• Fiddle

  ·vi To play on a fiddle. II. Fiddle ·vt To play (a tune) on a fiddle. III. Fiddle ·noun A stringed...

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• fiddle

  A contrivance to prevent things from rolling off the table in bad weather. It takes its name from it...

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• Block

  ·add. ·noun A block hole. II. Block ·vt The pattern or shape of a hat. III. Block ·add. ·noun The ...

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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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• Fiddle-faddle

  ·vi To talk nonsense. ...

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• Fiddle-shaped

  ·adj Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. ...

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• fiddle faddle

  Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. ...

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• scotch fiddle

  The itch. ...

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• welch fiddle

  The itch. See scotch fiddle. ...

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• fiddle-back

  n. name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae. ...

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• fiddle faddle

  Trifling discourse; nonsense.--Grose. Johnson. Also used adjectively and as a verb. She said that h...

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• fiddle-fish

  A name of the king-crab (Limulus polyphemus), from its supposed resemblance to that instrument. ...

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• fiddle-head

  When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...

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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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• 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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• 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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• (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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• calf-skin fiddle

  A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...

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• to play second fiddle

  is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...

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• block, on the

  1) On the promenade above referred to. 1896. `The Argus,' July 17, p. 4. col. 7: «We may slacken p...

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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 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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• to hang up one's fiddle

  To desist; to give up. When a man loses his temper and ain't cool, he might as well hang up his fid...

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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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• 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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