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‘two blocks’

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 342 words | Copyright

‘two blocks’, a maritime term to describe a purchase in which there is no more travel by reason of the moving block having been hauled up to the standing block. By extension it has also come to mean a rope or wire which has been hauled as taut as possible. A similar term with the same meaning is ‘chock-a-block’.

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