Bes·ser block | \ ˈbe-sər- 
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or besser block
plural Besser blocks or besser blocks
Definition of Besser block
Australia
: cinder block sense 2 Against all the acoustic probabilities of grey Besser blocks and steel framing, the winery encourages the sounds of instruments and voices to bloom.— Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 Dec. 1994 Each yard had a quota of car wrecks perched on Besser blocks or tree stumps.— Russell Skelton, King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya, 2010 Besser blocks and beaten copper panels were a crude attempt to create privacy …— Karen McCartney, Iconic Australian Houses, 2007 The impact demolished the cement besser block wall and left a gaping hole in the store, which was empty at the time.— Kate Lemmon, The Queensland Times, 30 Aug. 2012
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