two-block

verb — 2 senses

two-block

verb
1

Nautical, Transport 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:
2

Nautical, Transport 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:
Derived terms
two-blocked

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