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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A block that can be opened on one side to receive the looped part of a rope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Naut.) a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A kind of
block with anopening in one side to receive thebight of arope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pulley-block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope
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