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Definition of Snatch block
1. Noun. A pulley-block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope.
Definition of Snatch block
1. Noun. (nautical) A kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snatch Block
Literary usage of Snatch block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administration by Frederick Smeeton Williams (1888)
"A snatch block. Next to the crane is another runner, which supports the jib of
the crane. The next vehicle is another tool-van, which contains oil and ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"(See SNATCH-BLOCK.) If it be without a sheave, it is known as a dumb-snatch, ...
5249 is another form of snatch- block. Snath. (Husbandry. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"He was sitting on side of flat car, waiting for signal to be given to hook up
the chain and snatch block. The dipper was coming up from ditch with dirt. ..."
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