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Bulls eye
A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves having a groove around it and a hole through it used for connecting rigging
Bumkin
haul the fore tack to called a tack bumpkin b One from each quarter for the main brace blocks and called brace bumpkin c A small outrigger over the stern of a boat to extend the mizzen
Cam
in its surface imparts variable or intermittent motion to or receives such motion from a rod lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it
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Chock
To stop or fasten as with a wedge or block to scotch as to chock a wheel or cask
Chockablock
Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit brought close together as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting
Coehorn
A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles and light enough to be carried short distances by two men
Crampoons
A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron like double calipers for raising stones lumber blocks of ice etc
Dead eye
A round flattish wooden block encircled by a rope or an iron band and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard used
Isoprene
and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization In organic chemistry it is viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons
Debacle
forth a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other deacutebris
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