A thrust block, also known as a thrust box, is a specialised form of thrust bearing used in ships, to resist the thrust of the propeller shaft and transmit it to the hull.
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Famous quotes containing the words thrust and/or block:
““I sawe Phoebus thrust out his golden hedde,
Upon her to gaze:
But when he sawe how broade her beames did spredde
It did him amaze.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one’s future must be hewn.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)