Shoe Block
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“Nautically, a block with two sheaves, whose axes are at right angles to each other, used for the buntlines of the courses.” —Whitney, 1889
Source
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5582
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