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tailblock

tailblock is the alternative form of tail block.

Meaning of tail block

Noun

tail block (plural tail blocks)

  1. A block having a rope about it, and on an end hanging several feet from it.

Forms of tailblock

pluraltailblocks

Questions about tailblock

What is tailblock the alternative form of?
Tailblock is the alternative form of tail block.

Words near tailblock in the dictionary

  1. tailbands
  2. tailbase
  3. tailbases
  4. tailbeat
  5. tailbeats
  6. tailblock
  7. tailblocks
  8. tailboard
  9. tailboards
  10. tailbone
  11. tailbones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailblock (page history and authors); tail block (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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