Word Meanings - KNOCKSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A block upon which ore is broken up.

Related words: (words related to KNOCKSTONE)

• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• 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
• 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.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BLOCKAGE
  The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• BLOCKHEADED
  Stupid; dull.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• 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.
• BLOCKLIKE
  Like a block; stupid.
• 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.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• CHOCKABLOCK
  Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
• UNBROKEN
  Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
• 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