two-block

verb

To hoist to the yardarm.

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Meanings

verbtwo-block (third-person singular simple present two-blocks, present participle two-blocking, simple past and past participle two-blocked)

present singular third person two-blocks · participle present two-blocking · participle past two-blocked · past two-blocked

  1. nauticalTo hoist to the yardarm.

    He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.

    1960, The Skipper, volume 20, page 44
  2. colloquialnauticalTo rearrange (one's clothing) to make it look more tidy.

    […] wore a perfectly two-blocked field scarf and had razor-sharp creases that cut with a surgeon's precision right through the center of seven chevrons and the embroidered emblems on his sleeves.

    1992, The Leatherneck, volume 75, page 12
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