block

Các nghĩa

1. bờ lốc

   A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

   a block of ice; a block of stone

   She picked up the block and examined it.

2. thớt

   A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.

   Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.

   You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.

3. khuôn đầu giả

   A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.

4. khuôn làm mũ

   A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

   He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.

5. ròng rọc

   A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.

6. khúc củi

   A section of split logs used as fuel.

   She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'

   "Aye," said the farmer putting another block on the fire as he spoke […]

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