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Meaning of two-block | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To hoist to the yardarm.
  2. To rearrange (one's clothing) to make it look more tidy.
    colloquial

Examples

“He cleared one of the tangled halyards and swiftly two-blocked the flag.”
“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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