Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A single block or snatch-block, large enough to reeve a small hawser; any large snatch-block.
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But as to all the rest, no better than the viol-block or the geer-capstan.
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But as to all the rest, no better than the viol-block or the geer-capstan.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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