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two-block en · VERB
Meanings
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To hoist to the yardarm.
He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.
1960, The Skipper, volume 20, page 44:
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(colloquial) To 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:
Forms
Deriveds
two-blocked