"block" ~= street, and the OED?

[Joel S. Berson]

Under "block" sense 14, I don't see a definition meaning the *side*
of a block, as in "I live two blocks from him".  Is that sufficiently
different from 14.a., "A compact or connected mass of houses or
buildings, with no intervening spaces; (esp. in U.S. and Canada) the
quadrangular mass of buildings included between four streets, or two
'avenues' and two streets at right angles to them." to merit its own place?

Joel

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