fiddle block

English

Noun

fiddle block (plural fiddle blocks)

1. (nautical) A long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block.

See also

• viol block

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “fiddle block”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)