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blocking

1. Pieces of wood used to secure, join, or reinforce members, or to fill spaces between them. 2.A method of

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block-in-course

Hammer-dressed stones (which may vary in length) having square faces, laid with close joints, in courses not exceeding 12 in.

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blockholing

The breaking of boulders by firing a charge of explosive that has been loaded in a drill hole.

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block cornice

A cornice used in Italian architecture; usually consists of a bed molding, a range of block modillions or corbels, and

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