A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards.

A block of wood (or other material) having slits in which kitchen knives may be stored safely.

A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle.

(historical) A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.

A perforated iron block with grooved sides, adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging large objects.

(nautical) A tackle block having two sheaves, one above the other.

(archaic) Yule log

(nautical) A block with a projection, or shoulder, near the upper end, so that it can rest against a spar without jamming the rope.

(nautical) A block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.

(rail transport) On railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are run by the guidance of electric signals so that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.