Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trade-name of a hand-power hoist for lifting heavy weights; a chain-hoist.
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Examples
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"Mr Kruger and his team entered the shaft bottom and lifted the bottom deck front corner post with a chain-block to recover the last two bodies in the bottom deck," said Biggs.
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