…a large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side…
…the spot on which a batsman rests the end of the bat while waiting to receive a ball…
…an association of groups, especially nations, having a common interest and acting as a single political force…
…book (a large quantity of tickets, seats, hotel rooms, etc.) at the same time…
…a grant from central government which a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services…
…a party for all the residents of a block or neighbourhood, usually held outdoors…
…a carpenter’s plane with a blade set at an acute angle, used especially for planing across the end grain of wood…
…a vote proportional in power to the number of people a delegate represents, used particularly at a trade-union conference…
…a block of hard material pressed against the rim of a wheel to slow it down by friction, especially on a bicycle…
…a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells…
…a block of wood or other solid material, containing long hollow grooves in which kitchen knives can be inserted up to the handle…
…the production of insensibility in a part of the body by injecting an anaesthetic close to the nerves that supply it…
…a tall modern building containing numerous floors of offices or flats…
…an act or instance of reserving a large number of tickets, seats, hotel rooms, etc. at the same time…
…a diagram showing in schematic form the general arrangement of the parts or components of a complex system or process, such as an industrial apparatus or an electronic circuit…
…a resort island in southern Rhode Island, in the Atlantic Ocean at the eastern end of Long Island Sound…
…a system of allowing employees the whole of a stated period off work in order to undertake an educational course…
…a system of railway signalling which divides the track into sections and allows no train to enter a section that is not completely clear…
…a lightweight building brick made from small cinders mixed with sand and cement…
…an inability to recall something or to perform a mental action…
…a large multistorey building containing the offices of one or more companies…
…a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood which is struck with a stick…
…a casting or frame carrying or containing the bearings on which the collars of a propeller shaft press…
…stop something such as light or noise from reaching somewhere…
…a sturdy wooden kitchen table with a square top on which food may be chopped…
…a block of stone or low wooden steps from which a rider mounts a horse…
…a shaped rigid block for bracing the feet of a runner at the start of a race…
…the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing…
…a lifting mechanism consisting of ropes, a pulley block, and a hook…
…likely to be abolished or drastically reduced…
…(of a person) have a lot of experience…
