Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The block or mold on which a hat is formed. It consists of several pieces fastened together.
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Examples
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St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"Perhaps" -- a septuagenarian, with snowy hair and a thin body, clad in the clerical guise of the old school, and who had made a fortune by inventing a hat-block, arose hastily to his feet, and said:
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Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885
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As he went from the church, they brought him, upon a dray drawn with oxen, a confused heap of paternosters and aves of St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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