jewel block
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]jewel block (plural jewel blocks)
- (nautical) A block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jewel block”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)