Word Meanings - UNREEVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.

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• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• THIMBLE
  Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: -- A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• THIMBLERIG
  A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
• BLOCKAGE
  The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• THIMBLERIGGER
  One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
• BLOCK SYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train
• BLOCK BOOK
  A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
• THIMBLEBERRY
  A kind of black raspberry , common in America.
• BLOCKHEADED
  Stupid; dull.
• WITHDRAWING-ROOM
  A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room. A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.
• BLOCK CHAIN
  A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.
• BLOCKADER
  A vessel employed in blockading. (more info) 1. One who blockades.
• 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.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• CHOCKABLOCK
  Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
• LADY'S THIMBLE
  The harebell.
• BLOCK
  The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. 8. Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. 9. A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. (more info) Sw. & G. block, OHG. bloch. There