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two-block

two-block verb: to hoist to the yardarm.

Verb

two-block (third-person singular simple present two-blocks, present participle two-blocking, simple past and past participle two-blocked)

  1. To hoist to the yardarm.
    • He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.1960, The Skipper, volume 20, page 44
  2. (colloquial) To rearrange (one's clothing) to make it look more tidy.
    • […] wore a perfectly two-blocked field scarf and had razor-sharp creases that cut with a surgeon's precision right through the center of seven chevrons and the embroidered emblems on his sleeves.1992, The Leatherneck, volume 75, page 12

Forms of two-block

third-person singular presenttwo-blocks
present participletwo-blocking
past participletwo-blocked
pasttwo-blocked

Words formed from two-block

Phrases with two-block

Questions about two-block

What does two-block mean?
Two-block means to hoist to the yardarm.
What part of speech is two-block?
Two-block is a verb.
What is the past tense of two-block?
The past tense of two-block is two-blocked.

Words near two-block in the dictionary

  1. two-barred crossbill
  2. two-barred crossbills
  3. two-barred warbler
  4. two-barred warblers
  5. two-bit
  6. two-block
  7. two-block haircut
  8. two-block haircuts
  9. two-blocked
  10. two-blocking
  11. two-blocks

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