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Preventer   Listen
noun
Preventer  n.  
1.
One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another. (Obs.)
2.
One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.
3.
(Naut.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast.
Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates (Naut.), fixtures connected with preventers to reenforce other rigging.
Preventer stay. (Naut.) Same as Preventer, 3.





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"Preventer" Quotes from Famous Books



... north-north-east. The pack continued to open during the afternoon, and the 'Aurora' passed through wide stretches of small loose floes and brash. Progress was good until darkness made a stop necessary. The next morning the pack was denser. Stenhouse shipped a preventer jury-rudder (the weighted spanker gaff), but could not get steerage way. Broad leads were sighted to the north- west in the afternoon, and the ship got within a quarter of a mile of the nearest lead before being held up by heavy pack. She again bumped severely during the night, ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... other all the patent medicines in creation had failed him. Smith's Supreme Digestive Pellets—he had given them a more than fair trial. Blenkinsop's Liquid Life-Giver—he had drunk enough of it to float a ship. Perkins's Premier Pain-Preventer, strongly recommended by the sword-swallowing lady at Barnum and Bailey's—he had wallowed in it. And so on down the list. His interior organism had simply sneered at ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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