The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Block Model

Shipbuilding

A design of a vessel whittled from a block of wood, instead of being drawn on paper. (See Designing.)

Blocks, for Building the Ship Upon, are those solid pieces of oak timber fixed under a ship's keel upon the groundways.

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