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traveling block

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noun

  1. (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.

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Two light ropes were fastened to the large traveling block, each rope long enough to reach across the stream.

From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)

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