Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The supporting block or end-piece for that end of the work which is farthest from the head-end or driving-mechanism, as in a lathe, or the carriage for logs, in a saw-mill.
- noun Nautical, a single block having a short piece of rope attached to it by which it may be fastened to any object at pleasure. See cut under
block , 11.
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Examples
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He had the tail-block slung round his neck, and the end of the gantline over his shoulder.
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He had the tail-block slung round his neck, and the end of the gantline over his shoulder.
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Then, at Rogers 'command, one of the mutineers separated himself from the main body, and in the course of a minute or two was seen leisurely ascending the fore-rigging with a tail-block in one hand and the end of a coil of light line in the other.
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Most important cautions these, for if the tail-block be fastened too low on the wreck, the ropes will dip in the water, and perhaps foul the rocks.
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They fasten the end of the hawser, as directed, about two feet _above_ the place where the tail-block is fixed to the stump of the mast.
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He sent the topman down into the top for a tail-block and the studding-sail haulyards, made a whip, and lowered me on deck.
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"Make this hawser fast about two feet above the tail-block.
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