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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A block or piece of timber attached to the end timber of a car, or of the platform of a passenger-car, above the draw-bar, to keep the cars from coming together if the draw-bar gives way.
- noun The flat head of a buffer-bar. See cut under
buffer . Also calledbuffing-block .
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