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noun

Stopper n.

One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

(Naut.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, used to secure something.

(Bot.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.

Ring stopper (Naut.), a short rope or chain passing through the anchor ring, to secure the anchor to the cathead.

Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

verb

Stopper v. t. (past & past part. stoppered; pres. part. stoppering) To close or secure with a stopper.

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Etymology of 'Stopper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stopper" Quotes from Famous Books

... specimens liable to attack by insects, a small piece of blotting paper moistened with chloroform was inserted underneath the stopper in each bottle. Later on, bichloride of mercury was found ...

— History of the Division of Medical Sciences • Sami Khalaf Hamarneh

... my thirst," said the Khoja, and he pulled out the stopper, on which the water rushed out with vehement force over the Khoja's head, and drenched him in ...

— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... scrubbing it as if it had been linen for the wash, before putting it into the stewpan. When at last it was ready, Anton laid the table, placing beside the dish a three-footed plated salt-cellar, blackened with age, and a cut glass decanter, with a round glass stopper in its narrow neck. Then, in a kind of chant, he announced to Lavretsky that dinner was ready, and took his place behind his master's chair, a napkin wound around his right hand, and a kind of air of the past, like the odor of cypress-wood ...

— Liza - "A nest of nobles" • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

... returned a few moments later with a well-filled canteen, in his mouth. Hastily Hal removed the stopper and poured some of the water down Chester's throat. Then he took a ...

— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes

... a gourd, in which something gurgles. Its smell, when the stopper is taken out, tells it ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

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