…a large solid piece of hard material, especially rock, stone, or wood, typically with flat surfaces on each side…
…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 a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services…
…a party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood, typically held on a closed-off city street…
…a carpenter’s plane with a blade set at an acute angle, used especially for planing across the end grain of wood…
…a block of hard material pressed against the rim of a wheel to slow it down by friction, typically one of a pair made of hardened rubber used 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 grooves in which kitchen knives of various sizes can be inserted up to the handle…
…the production of insensibility in a part of the body by injecting an anesthetic close to the nerves that supply it…
…a diagram showing in schematic form the general arrangement of 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 railroad signaling that divides the track into sections and allows no train to enter a section that is not completely clear…
…a material used to make kitchen countertops and tables, consisting of strips of hardwood glued together…
…a lightweight building brick made from small cinders mixed with sand and cement…
…a large multistorey building containing the offices of one or more companies…
…a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood that 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, typically light or noise, from reaching somewhere…
…a mountain consisting of a block or blocks bounded by normal faults in the earth’s crust…
…a sturdy wooden kitchen table with a square top on which food may be chopped…
…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 mechanism consisting of ropes and one or more pulley-blocks, used for lifting or pulling heavy objects…
…a newcomer to a particular place or sphere of activity, typically someone who has yet to prove themselves…
…put one’s standing or reputation at risk by proceeding with a particular course of action…
…someone who resembles his or her parent, especially in character…
