Word Meanings - KNOCKSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A block upon which ore is broken up.

• BLOCKINGCOURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• BLOCKSIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• BLOCKSYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has l
• Broken-backed
  Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• BROKENBACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.
• Broken-bellied
  Having a ruptured belly.
• BROKENBELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly. [R.]
• Broken-hearted
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
• BROKENBREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• Blockading
  of Blockade

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