English
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From push + block.
A compound of push + block
Latin pellō ‘to push, drive; to strike’
Latin pulsō ‘to push, strike, beat’
Old French poulser
Middle French pousser
Middle English pushen
English push
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- ‘thick plank’
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Old Dutch *blok ‘log’
Middle Dutch blok ‘treetrunk’
Old French bloc ‘log’
Middle English blok ‘log’
English block
Today it means
noun A pushstick in the form of a solid block.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pushblock”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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