bull block

American

noun

Metalworking.

a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.

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In a few places the old ground method of yarding with a bull block is still used.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

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