Word Meanings - TAILBLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.

Related words: (words related to TAILBLOCK)

• 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
• 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.
• BLOCKAGE
  The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• BLOCKHEADISM
  That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.
• BLOCKADE
  1. The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy. Note: Blockade is now usually applied to an investment with ships
• BLOCKHOUSE
  An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower
• 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.
• SNATCH BLOCK
  a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
• PILLAR-BLOCK
  See PILLOW
• BELGIAN BLOCK
  A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.