top-block
English
Noun
top-block (plural top-blocks)
- (nautical) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for top-block in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)