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jewel blocks

jewel blocks is the plural of jewel block.

Meaning of jewel block

Noun

jewel block (plural jewel blocks)

  1. (archaic) A block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studdingsail is rove.
    • Having reeved the line through all the inferior blocks, I went out with it to the end of the weather-top-gallant-yard-arm, and was in the act of leaning over and passing it through the suspended jewel-block there, when the ship gave a plunge in the sudden swells of the calm sea, and pitching me...1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket

Questions about jewel blocks

What is jewel blocks the plural of?
Jewel blocks is the plural of jewel block.

Words near jewel blocks in the dictionary

  1. jewel bearing
  2. jewel bearings
  3. jewel beetle
  4. jewel beetles
  5. jewel block
  6. jewel blocks
  7. jewel box
  8. jewel boxes
  9. jewel bug
  10. jewel bugs
  11. jewel case

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