gablockn.

a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 223 When a spurre is broken or stands crooked, they cut if of allmost to the bottome, and arme it with a gaffle of silver or steele... These are allso called Gablocks.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 252/2 Gablocks are Spurs made of Iron, or Brass, or Silver and are fixed on the Legs of such Cocks as want their natural Spurs, some call them Gaffs.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Gablocks, among Sportsmen, false spurs placed on game cocks. [Also in later dictionaries.]

?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 18 Truth on Honesty gooink honteh hont howd'n one onother's backs primely, on ston os stiff os o Gablock.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. I4^v Gablock..we are seldome without one in the Works, which is straight and about a Yard long, and of very good Use to wrest a Stone, or a Spark of Ore that is large.

1819 Lancaster Gaz. 18 Sept. Eastwood had a gablock in his hand, and Howarth (whose face was blacked) a cleaver.

1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/1 Gablock, Gavelock, an iron bar for putting up hurdles with.

1976 G. E. Campion Lincs. Dial. 46 Gablick, a substantial crowbar with a point at one end and a square centre section. It was used to erect temporary netting fences.

1982 J. Gormley Battered Cherub iii. 27 As the seam advanced, of course, the props had to be removed..and the removal was also the packers' job, which they did using winches called ‘sylvesters’ or ‘gablocks’ to drag out the props.

1891 Liverpool Mercury 25 Apr. 6/4 The jury recommended that in future, when the men were engaged drawing props, a gablock and chain should be used.

1907 Royal Comm. Mines: Minutes of Evid. I. 45/2 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3549) XIV. 65 In repairing roadways, etc., I fail to see what can be done, except that perhaps the old timbers might be pulled out by ‘gab-lock and chain’, or other similar appliance.