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Snatch block   Listen
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Snatch block  n.  (Naut.), A kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.






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"Snatch block" Quotes from Famous Books



... the worst, though. That generally gets the riggin' slinger, but a piece of it's liable to hit anybody. You see them big iron pulley blocks the haul-back cable works in? Well, sometimes they have to anchor a snatch block to a stump an' run the main line through it at an angle to get a log out the way you want. Suppose the block breaks when I'm givin' it to her? Chunks uh that broken cast iron'll fly like bullets. Yes, sir, broken blocks is bad business. Maybe you noticed the boys used ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair



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