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Definition of Bullock block
1. Noun. A pulley-block at the head of a topmast.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullock Block
Literary usage of Bullock block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"Reeve a top-rope through the bullock-block and send it down, and having put over
die hones, make the top-rope fast to the middle of the yard, stopping it to ..."
2. The New Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation: to by John Hamilton Moore (1810)
"A. I will reeve a hawser for a top-rope, through the bullock-block, and send it
down, and having put over the horses, make the top rope fast to the middle ..."
3. Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons by Redfield Proctor, Jacob G Ullery, Charles H. Davenport, Hiram Augustus Huse, Levi Knight Fuller (1894)
"In 1891 the firm built the bullock block at a cost of Sro,ooo, in which they at
present do business. ELMER J. BULLOCK. Mr. Bullock has never cared to enter ..."
4. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the by Hiram Carleton (1903)
"... i)tlt soon: after built tine block knl(,wn as the bullock block. lie was
afterwards 1c-tive inn ..."
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