block

What's the good of knockin' the blocks off of scabs when they keep a-comin' thick as ever?

Come in mainsheet two blocks! Jump, damn you, jump!"

Losing its shadow-like appearance it became first cleft and mountainous, next coloured grey and purple, next scattered with white blocks which gradually separated themselves, and then, as the progress of the ship acted upon the view like a field-glass of increasing power, became streets of houses.

Someone, at some time in the past, had had it blocked for an unknown purpose of his own.

Joe blocked, and backed, and slid around the ring, avoiding blows and living somehow through the whirlwind onslaughts.