stopper
stopper is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Naut.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten.
- 2.(Bot.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia. C. S. Sargent. 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.
- 3.To close or secure with a stopper.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alley
- bar
- beadle
- blind
- block
- blockade
- bolt
- bung
- button
- caecal
- caecum
- cerberus
- choke
- clinch
- close
- closure
- constipation
- contraction
- cork
- corner
- cover
- cram
- cul-de-sac
- dam
- door
- doorkeeper
- dossil
- down
- embolus
- fill
- hermetically
- hinder
- hindrance
- impassable
- impenetrable
- imperforate
- imperforation
- impermeability
- impermeable
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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