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A blockhead. H. Taylor.

TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
BLOCKHEADED
Stupid; dull.
BLOCKHEAD
A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.
BLOCKHEADISM
That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.