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Chain
·noun The warp threads of a web.
II. Chain ·vt To measure with the chain.
III. Chain ·vt To unite ...
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Chain
1) A part of the insignia of office. A chain of gold was placed about Joseph's neck (Gen. 41:42); an...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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chain
When mountains, hills, lakes, and islands are linked together, or follow each other in succession, s...
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Chain
Chains were used,
• As badges of office;
• For ornament;
• For confining prisoners.
• the gold c...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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Brequet chain
·- A watch-guard.
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Chain pump
·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...
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Chain stitch
·- An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain;
— used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.
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Chain tie
·add. ·- A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods.
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Chain wheel
·- A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.
II. Chain wheel ·- An inversion of the chain pump, by which i...
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Crotch chain
·add. ·- A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, ·etc.
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Gunter's chain
·- The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. ·see <<Chain>>, ·noun, 4, and Gunter's scale.
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Safety chain
·add. ·- A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in ...
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Sheet chain
·- A chain sheet cable.
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Top-chain
·noun A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the rope...
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Paul's Chain
North out of Carter Lane to St. Paul's Churchyard. In Castle Baynard Ward (O.S.1880).
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golden-chain
n.
another name for the Laburnum (q.v.).
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chain-bolt
A large bolt to secure the chains of the dead-eyes through the toe-link, for the purpose of securing...
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chain-cables
Are not new; Cæsar found them on the shores of the British Channel. In 1818 I saw upwards of eighty ...
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chain-hook
An iron rod with a handling-eye at one end, and a hook at the other, for hauling the chain-cables ab...
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chain-pipe
An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above.
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chain-plates
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...
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chain-pump
This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chain-slings
Chains attached to the sling-hoop and mast-head, by which a lower yard is hung. Used for boat or any...
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chain-stopper
There are various kinds of stoppers for chain-cables, mostly acting by clamping or compression.
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chain, top
A chain to sling the lower yards in time of battle, to prevent them from falling down when the ropes...
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chain-well
, or locker
A receptacle below deck for containing the chain-cable, which is passed thither throug...
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top-chain
A chain to sling the yards in time of battle, in case of the ropes by which they are hung being shot...
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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 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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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upping block
(Called in some counties a leaping stock, in others a jossing block.) Steps for mounting a horse. He...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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back-block
adj.
from the interior.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydneyside Saxon,' vol. xii. p. 215:
«`What a nic...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yu-block
, yule-clog
Christmas-block.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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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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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Side-chain theory
·add. ·- A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outl...
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chain-cable compressor
A curved arm of iron which revolves on a bolt through an eye at one end, at the other is a larger ey...
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chain-cable controller
A contrivance for the prevention of one part of the chain riding on another while heaving in.
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chain-cable shackles
Used for coupling the parts of a chain-cable at various lengths, so that they may be disconnected wh...
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short-linked chain
A cable without studs, and therefore with shorter links than those of stud-chains; such are slings a...
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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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midshipman's watch and chain
A sheep's heart and pluck.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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watch, chain, and seals
A sheep's head And pluck.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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testing a chain-cable
Trying its strength by the hydraulic machine, which strains it beyond what it is likely to undergo w...
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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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Chain Alley, Cooper's Row, Aldgate
See Gould Square.
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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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fore-ganger of the chain bower cables
Is a length of 15 fathoms of stouter chain, in consequence of greater wear and tear near the anchor,...
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