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Auction block   /ˈɑkʃən blɑk/   Listen
Auction block

noun
1.
A platform from which an auctioneer sells.  Synonym: block.





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... centuries ago, established and permitted Slavery. What was the cry of the bondman to them? What the sobs of the mother torn from her child—the wife from her husband—on the auction block? Who among them cared for the lacerated bodies, the shameful and hopeless lives? They were merry; they sang and they danced; and they said, ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly


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