Bull-block
a machine for drawing wire in which the wire is pulled through the dies by a power-operated drum.
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- Bullbucker
a foreman who supervises fallers and buckers.
- Bull-chain
a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- Bulldog
one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting. Informal. a stubbornly persistent person. a short-barreled revolver of large caliber. Metallurgy. slag from a puddling furnace. an assistant to the proctor at Oxford and Cambridge universities. like […]