block-head

Updated: June 17, 2025

"Good sir," quoth Sancho, "mind what you say, and take heed what you do; for I would willingly keep my carcass and the case of my understanding from being pounded, mashed, and crushed with fulling hammers." "The block-head!" cried Don Quixote; "is there no difference between a helmet and a fulling mill?"

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