Word Meanings - JOBBERNOWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A blockhead. H. Taylor.
Related words: (words related to JOBBERNOWL)
- TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - BLOCKHEADED
Stupid; dull. - BLOCKHEAD
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope. - BLOCKHEADISM
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.