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Shoe-block.


Nautical.) One having two sheaves which revolve in planes at right angles to each other. They are generally used as buntlineblocks to courses, the buntline reeving in the upper sheave, and the whip in the lower one.

Shoe-edge trimmer (shoe-machine manufacturing Co.).

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