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ˈhorse-block
1. A small platform, usually of stone, ascended by 3 or 4 steps, for convenience in mounting a horse; also a portable structure of wood, or the like, for the same purpose.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Horse-block, in the manege. 1798Sporting Mag. XI. 79 Near the gate a horse block, for the conveniency of mounting. 1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 143 The old horse⁓block in the yard. 1889C. F. Woolson Jupiter Lights i. 9 A horse-block with a flight of steps attached was brought, and placed in position for the visitor's descent.
2. ‘A square frame of strong boards, used by excavators to elevate the ends of their wheeling-planks’ (Gwilt Archit. 1842–76).
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 12 Lolling about over the horse-blocks, timber, and shingles.
3. Ship-building. ‘A grating or platform elevated above the deck at the height of the rail, for the use of the officers of the deck’ (Cent. Dict.). |