stoppern.

Brit.

/ˈstɒpə/, U.S.

/ˈstɑpər/

Etymology: < stop v. + -er suffix¹.

1. A person who stops (see the senses of the verb).

†a. One who obstructs the course of (a river); one who stops or fills up holes or chinks.

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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > impounding of water > one who

stopper1480

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > one who closes or shuts > one who closes apertures

stopper1611

1480 Coventry Leet Bk. 455 They maken dayly als gret diligens as they can to knowe the stoppers of the seid Comien Ryuer,..and when eny be perceyued they ben punysshed.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxvii. 9 Thy calkers [margin. or, stoppers of chinks, Heb. strengthners] .

b. Hunting. = earthstopper n.; (also) = stop n.²

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant at hunt > other attendants

marker1486

stopper1848

flapper1856

picker-up1977

1848 Rural Amusem. 125 The stopper belonging to the pack rarely neglected stopping these earths in the night before the meet.

1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 125/1 Pheasants were running here and there as they were afraid to face the stoppers.

c. One who brings to a stand or causes to cease.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which

stancher1453

ceaser?1504

stopper1533

arrester1628

ender1675

the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > one who

stopper1533

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. 124 Þe remanent tribunis, quhilkis war stopparis of þe law Agrarie.

1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. iv. sig. F2 When wail is weales, & stelth is welths chiefe stopper.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Estancheur, a stopper (of an issue of blood, &c.).

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 22 If any be stopped from following of his track the stopper shall answere the goods so tracked.

1913 H. S. Wilkinson in Rep. 7th Ann. Meeting Hist. Assoc. 3 How..could a leader..find a multitude of his fellow creatures willing to make themselves stoppers of bullets and to part with life itself in obedience to a word..?

d. Pugilism. (See stop v. 15d.)

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > using specific action

weaver1829

stopper1840

counterer1889

left jabber1905

southpaw1910

counterpuncher1932

1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §4038 He was..an excellent ‘stopper’, hitting with his right and stopping with his left.

†e. Real Tennis. (See quot. 1585.)

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > player or participant

tennis-playerc1440

stopper1548

ketchepillar1568

tenniser1579

striker-out1699

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxv^v The beste stopper that he hath at tenyce shall not well stoppe without a faulte.

c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Dviii^v Another was ryd of his vi. C. li. at the tennis in a weke, by the fraud of his stopper.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 296/2 Factor,..the stopper, or he that marketh the chase in playeng, at tennise specially.

f. A player whose office it is to stop balls; in Cricket, a wicket-keeper.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > wicketkeeper

keeper1752

stopper1752

wicketkeeper1752

stumper1773

wicket-keep1867

Aunt Sally1898

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player > types of

striker1699

kicker1829

non-striker1842

feeder1844

stopper1847

defender1851

hand-in1875

hand-out1875

back1880

attacker1884

field general1895

ball carrier1902

ball-handler1912

ball-winner1972

shotmaker1974

1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/2 When the ball has been in hand by one of the keepers or stoppers..he may go where he pleases till the next ball is bowl'd.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Stopper, a person at tennis, football, and other games, who stops the balls.

1904 Daily Chron. 21 May 9/4 This Sussex stumper..is the best ‘stopper’ in England.

g. Association Football. A player whose function is to block attacks on goal from the middle of the field. Also attributive as stopper centre-half.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > types of

marksman1927

marker1928

stopper1934

full back1958

sweeper1964

back four1966

libero1967

clogger1970

anchorman1974

target man1975

shadow1976

anchor1984

1934 D. Jack Soccer 124 The defensive pivot..is essentially a ‘stopper’, a destructive player if you like.

1941 Daily Mail 10 Feb. 4/2 Though occasionally outwitted by Lawton, Dykes made himself a nuisance as a stopper.

1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 9/1 He was an admirable foil for two clever attacking halves, for he was a stopper pure and simple.

1961 Times 10 Feb. 19/6 A fundamental change in tactics with the arrival of the ‘stopper’ centre~half.

1978 Time 3 July 53/2 He spent the first half, at his own behest, in the unlikely role of a stopper on Paolo Rossi—and very nearly gave away a goal.

a. Something that stops up a hole or passage.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture

stanch1557

stop-hole1562

stopple1562

stopping1585

stopper1591

stop1771

stopgap1872

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Rombon A stopper, Obturatorium.

1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 20 The surest..stopper of the Pores of their Bodies against the Winter's cold.

1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 333 To tun it up into a Cask,..which stop up only with a loose stopper for two or three Days;..put a Peg into the vent hole loose.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. v. 98 Imagining..that the orifices of these nerves are provided with stoppers which the mind draws up at pleasure to give the animal spirits admittance.

1799 Sir T. Munro in G. R. Gleig Life T. Munro (1849) vii. 117 I pulled two stoppers of lint out of my ears.

1844 W. Dufton Nature & Treatm. Deafness 85 Sometimes the stopper of wax is removed by a single syringing.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) v. xxviii. 471 Thus the opponent's mouth is shut with a stopper of his own invention.

1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 7 The stop-cock being closed and the stopper removed from the upper orifice.

figurative.1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 64 Lucy never intended to marry this commodious stopper of love-gaps.

b. spec. A plug for closing the neck of a bottle, the end of a tube, or the hole for the egress of fluid from any vessel.Not usually applied to a cork or bung; most commonly it denotes a solid piece of glass, the lower part of which is shaped to fit the neck of a bottle, while the upper part is fashioned to serve as a handle.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc.

stopple139.

prop1513

vice1530

stopper1667

tank top1862

top1862

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 522 A Silver Tube, with a Silver Stopper.

1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 296 The Hole that let the Liquor run, Was wanting of a Stopper.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 228 A phial closed with a ground stopper.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 464/1 The patent caoutchouc stoppers, which, besides being..cheaper than corks, can [etc.].

1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 32 In a third series [of experiments] the cork stoppers used in the first and second series were abandoned, and glass stoppers employed.

1883 H. J. Powell Princ. Glass-making 74 Finally the stopper is ground into the mouth of the decanter.

1913 P. D. Scott-Moncrieff Paganism & Christianity Egypt ii. 25 (note) The old ‘Canopic’ vases..had stoppers in the form of genii supposed to protect the dead.

figurative.1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 223 There is no such word as enough, as a stopper for good wine.

c. A cork or plug for the mouth of a muzzle-loading musket, to keep out moisture and dust.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > stopper for muzzle

tampiona1625

stopper1802

snap-cap1844

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict.

1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 38 The men will be directed to replace their stoppers.

d. = pipe stopper n. at pipe n.¹ Compounds 2, tobacco-stopper n. at tobacco n. Compounds 4.).

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > tamp

stopper1622

tobacco-stopper1664

pipe stopper1734

1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant C 2 A pyde coat Page, Who..his Tobacco fils, With stopper, tongs, and other vtensils.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 63 As the destruction of Pipes is the multiplication of Stoppers, so [etc.].

1736 I. H. Browne Pipe of Tobacco ii. 8 Lip of Wax, and Eye of Fire:..And thy swelling ashey Crest, With my little Stopper prest.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 177 They say, that the Corruption of Pipes is the Generation of Stoppers.

1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 201 Flattening the tobacco in his pipe with its stopper.

e. The plug of a ‘stopped’ organ pipe.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > stopper

stopple1771

stopper1852

tampion1864

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 80 The stopping is effected by a sort of capsule, similar to the lid of a round brass box, called the stopper.

1879 Organ Voicing 25 If..the stopper and joints of the pipe are sound.

f. = stopping n. 4d.

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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling

flocks1277

capiton1612

padding1640

wattins1690

wadding1734

packing1779

pugging1801

stopping1823

chinking1837

stopper1879

air foam1937

the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > material or composition used for

closure1651

packing1779

stopping1823

chinking1837

stopper1879

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 207/2 The nail holes, &c., are stopped with hard-stopper made of dry lead mixed with Japan gold size.

1912 H. J. Butler Motor Bodies & Chassis 115 Some add turps and tub lead to help the stopper to harden. This hard stopper is forced in carefully with the putty knife.

†3. Anything that produces constipation. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > constipation > cause of

stopper1528

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. M ij Breadde made with littel leuen nourishethe moche, but the norishement therof is a stopper.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 23 Bread ouersweete is a stopper.

†4. Anatomy. (See quot. 1683 and obturator n. 1) Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > obturator foramen

stopper1683

obturator foramen1824

thyroid foramen1890

1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xx. 187 Two Muscles called Obturatores, or Stoppers, because they fill up the wide hole between the Os pubis and Hip-bone.

†5. A shoemaker's tool: = stopping stick n. at stopping n. Compounds 2b. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > other

thumb-stall1589

stopping sticka1600

dresser1600

heel-block1600

rubbing pin1600

stopper1600

petty boy1688

shoe-bench1841

shoe hairs1859

fudge-wheel1874

shoe-hammer1875

size-stick1875

trimming-machine1877

heel breaster1879

slugger1892

waist-hammer1895

waist-iron1895

1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C3^v Heark you skomaker, haue you al your tooles, a good rubbing pinne, a good stopper, a good dresser [etc.].

6. The upper pad of the sole of a greyhound's foot.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound > parts of

stopper1853

1853 ‘Stonehenge’ Greyhound vii. 158 When the cut is severe, as for instance, at the root of ‘the stopper’.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. iii. vii. 201 If a Stopper is detached from the leg.., it is far better to remove the hanging portion with the knife.

7. Something that causes to cease or brings to a stand.

a. gen., esp. in the phrase to put a stopper on (? with mixture of sense 2), to put a stop to. colloquial or slang.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to

astintc700

stathea1200

atstuntc1220

to put an end toa1300

to set end ofa1300

batec1300

stanch1338

stinta1350

to put awayc1350

arrestc1374

finisha1375

terminec1390

achievea1393

cease1393

removec1405

terminate?a1425

stop1426

surceasec1435

resta1450

discontinue1474

adetermine1483

blina1500

stay1525

abrogatea1529

suppressa1538

to set in or at stay1538

to make stay of1572

depart1579

check1581

intercept1581

to give a stop toa1586

dirempt1587

date1589

period1595

astayc1600

nip1600

to break off1607

snape1631

sist1635

to make (a) stop of1638

supersede1643

assopiatea1649

periodizea1657

unbusya1657

to put a stop to1679

to give the holla to1681

to run down1697

cessate1701

end1737

to choke off1818

stopper1821

punctuate1825

to put a stopper on1828

to take off ——1845

still1850

to put the lid on1873

on the fritz1900

to close down1903

to put the fritz on something1910

to put the bee on1918

switch1921

to blow the whistle on1934

the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > that which arrests

stay?1523

scotch1639

to put a stopper on1828

stop-piece1840

backstop1851

stop-pin1869

sprag1878

arrester-

the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which

stancha1400

supersedeas1555

stop-gamble1579

stopa1586

supra sedeas1615

stop-game1659

to put a stopper on1828

off-switch1897

shut-off1951

1828 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. I. 188 The Lively Kid met with a stopper to his rush on the nob.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xx. 322 If you don't clap a stopper on that jaw of your's, by George, we'll cobb you.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lviii. 274 If it rested with him to decide, he would put a final stopper on the bird, and his master too.

1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. xcix. 88 The stopper has been put upon the utterance of ideas on both sides the Channel.

1898 B. Burleigh Sirdar & Khalifa vii. 107 A bullet so treated expands mushroom fashion upon striking any object and becomes a veritable ‘stopper’.

1901 Wide World Mag. 6 501/1 A hit, evidently, for the animal's progress became immediately slower. Then Armstrong put in the stopper, his bullet piercing the neck.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson v. 56 But that rejection..is no stopper to my suit.

b. Mechanics. An appliance for stopping machinery.

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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which > specifically a machine

stop-motion1851

stopper1863

stop-off1869

stop-finger1875

1863 Brit. Patent 1690 (1864) 5 By being..pressed against the..collar the stopper will arrest the rotary motion of the arbor.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stopper (Railway Engineering), a trailing-brake formerly used on inclined planes. It..was thrown into action by the pressure of the cars, if the rope broke.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/1 Ramsbottom..invented.. the weft-fork-stopper for looms. This stopper, as its name implies, stops the loom when the weft breaks.

c. Hunting. An obstacle that is impassable or causes delay.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > type of fence

timber1791

rasper1812

stopper1832

jump1858

oxer1859

flying fence1883

1832 Q. Rev. 47 237 The fence at the top is impracticable—Meltonicé, ‘a stopper;’ nothing for it but a gate, leading into a broad lane.

1859 Sporting Mag. Mar. 159 They..crossed the old canal, which was another stopper, and allowed the fox to get a long way ahead.

1860 J. E. Eardley-Wilmot Reminisc. T. A. Smith ii. 44 The famous story of Lord Kintore coming once to a ‘stopper’ in the Vale of White Horse, which defied the whole field.

d. Rowing. The after part of a rowlock.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > rowlock > after part of

stopper1897

1897 J. Jeffery Rowing 8 That part against which the oar is pressed in rowing is called the ‘thowl’, and the opposite, or after-thowl, is called the ‘stop’, or ‘stopper’.

1904 G. Rixon Rowing & Sculling 2 In some stock gigs it will be found that there is not sufficient room between the thowl and stopper, causing the oar to stick or ‘lock’ on a full reach forward.

e. Bridge. A card of such value that it can reasonably be counted on, in conjunction with other cards in the same suit, to take a trick in that suit. Cf. stopped adj. 2d.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of card

card of re-entry1870

master card1872

singleton1876

entry1884

control1892

stopper1900

raiser1912

long card1913

loser1917

X1920

minor1927

top1929

side entry1937

penalty card1958

master1962

1900 R. F. Foster Bridge Man. 112 When the make is original, a guarded king is very likely a stopper in the dealer's suit.

1913 F. Irwin Auction High-lights 101 To bid ‘a no-trump’ declares nothing actually, except general help. The bid is often made on three stoppers.

1913 F. Irwin Auction High-lights 105 Four diamonds to the jack might not prove a stopper if the card next to the jack did not happen to be the ten-spot, but it is, and a sequence-stopper is always safe.

1933 Times 24 Jan. 13/4 This is a conventional and artificial response. It does not guarantee a ‘stopper’ in Spades.

1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 222 Some players bid 1 NT on a fair balanced hand even when they have no stopper.

1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 19c/2 If North has a diamond stopper, he bids no trump.

f. Something which attracts and holds attention; something striking or impressive. colloquial. Cf. showstopper n.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > subject of interest > designed to attract

attraction1607

attractive1615

stunt1878

clou1883

gimmick1926

stopper1968

1968 Punch 21 Feb. 269/1 ‘What's your snap reaction, Jack?’ broke in Gringeworth. ‘It's um, well, certainly a stopper,’ said Tubstraw. ‘My God! It's the stopper of the century!’ exclaimed Gringeworth.

1973 Times 21 Feb. 13/8 ‘A memorable image.’ ‘It's a stopper.’

8. Caribbean. A tree of the genus Eugenia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies

sweetwood1607

mastic1657

acajou1666

bastard locust tree1670

alligator wood1696

muskwood1696

lancewood1697

rodwood1716

cog-wood1725

soapwood1733

down tree?1740

pigeon plum1743

break-axe tree1756

horse-wood1756

loblolly whitewood1756

Spanish elm1756

trumpet-tree1756

ahuehuete1778

ocote1787

locust tree1795

Madeira wood1796

peroba1813

roble1814

louro1816

cecropia1824

purple heart1825

wallaba1825

trumpet-wood1836

gumbo-limbo1837

poui1838

quebracho1839

snake-wood1843

yacca1843

horseflesh wood1851

necklace tree1858

Honduras rosewood1860

turanira1862

softwood1864

wattle-wood1864

balsa tree1866

primavera1871

rauli1874

lemon-wood1879

wheel-tree1882

Spanish stopper1883

gurgeon-stopper1884

pinkwood-tree1884

stopper1884

sloth-tree1885

imbaubaa1893

Spanish cedar1907

amarant1909

Parana pine1916

imbuya1919

mastic-bully1920

banak1921

timbo1924

becuiba1934

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 88 Eugenia buxifolia... Gurgeon Stopper. Spanish Stopper.

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 89 Eugenia monticola... Stopper. White Stopper.

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 89 Eugenia procera... Red Stopper.

a. Nautical. (See quot. 1769².)For cat-, cathead-, dog-, ring-, wherrit-, wing-stopper, see the prefixed words.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for

stopper1636

lanyard1669

lasher1669

racking1704

selvage1711

selvagee1750

gilguy1833

tier1844

stop1846

selvage-stropc1860

1636 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men (rev. ed.) 43 Nealed too, looke to your stoppers [earlier stops], your Anchor comes home, the ship's a drift.

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 102.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 153 Stoppers of Anchors... Stoppers of the Bit.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Anchor is a cock-bill The anchor is suspended at the cat-head by its stopper.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Stoppers, certain short pieces of rope, which are usually knotted at one, or both ends... They are either used to suspend any weighty body, or to retain a cable, shroud, &c. in fixed position.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer III. i. 30 The stoppers were cut, and the anchors dropped.

b. Fisheries. (See quot. 1883.)

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1883 R. F. Walsh Irish Fisheries 11 At the bottom of the nets another rope runs from end to end, and this is called the ‘foot line’... Suspended from this foot line..are other ropes, each 27 feet long, and called ‘stoppers’.

Compounds

stopper-berry tree n. the Barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > other American fruit-plants

guava1555

anchovy pear1657

river pear1696

sour-sop tree1696

monkey apple1750

stopper-berry tree1750

sour-sop1753

chocho1756

sweet plum1796

pequi1819

Spanish plum1823

jaboticaba1824

christophene1830

Quito orange1846

pepino1850

mountain mango1861

chayote1884

Suriname cherry1895

feijoa1898

choko1902

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 176 The Stopper-Berry Tree; Lat. Malpighia.

stopper-bolt n. Nautical (see quots.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > rigging supporting mast laterally > chains or chain-plates

chain1627

chain-plate1692

stopper-bolt1711

chain1720

channel plate1833

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 37 To have Stopper-bolts for the Cables.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stopper-bolt, a large ring-bolt driven in the deck of a ship before the main-hatch, for securing the stoppers to.

stopper-hitch n. Nautical (see quot. 1876).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

cat's paw1794

midshipman's hitch1794

reef knot1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

marling hitch1867

wind-knot1870

Portuguese knot1871

rosette1875

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

monkey fist1917

Spanish bowline1968

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

Magnus hitch1794

midshipman's hitch1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

cat's paw1840

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

Portuguese knot1871

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

Spanish bowline1968

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 410/2 Stopper-hitch, a knot for stoppering the fall of a tackle, &c.

stopper-hole n. (see quot. 1869).

ΚΠ

1869 S. V. J. Day Puddling 2/1 in W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools In the lower side of the charging door an opening is formed called the stopper-hole, through which the puddler introduces his rabble for working up the mass of iron.

stopper-knot n. Nautical a kind of knot used for the ends of stoppers.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

cat's paw1794

midshipman's hitch1794

reef knot1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

marling hitch1867

wind-knot1870

Portuguese knot1871

rosette1875

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

monkey fist1917

Spanish bowline1968

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

Magnus hitch1794

midshipman's hitch1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

cat's paw1840

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

Portuguese knot1871

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

Spanish bowline1968

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 56 A thimble is spliced in one end and a ‘double wall’ or deck stopper-knot, is made on the other.

stopper-net n. (see quot. 1792).

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > seal-hunting > [noun] > net

shoal-net1792

stopper-net1792

1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. Gloss. p. xv Stopper-net, a large net for catching seals, which is made to fit the place in which it is fixed.

Derivatives

ˈstopperless adj. without stoppers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > open and unobstructed > by bung, plug, etc.

unbunged1731

uncorked1791

plugless1836

unstoppered1861

stopperless1863

corkless1888

1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 1 Aug. 540/2 The stopperless cruets on the spindle-shanked sideboard were in a miserably dejected state.

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h. Baseball slang. A pitching ace, spec. (a) a starting pitcher depended on to win a game or reverse a losing streak; (b) a relief pitcher who prevents the opposing team from scoring highly.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > pitcher

pitcher1845

relief pitcher1884

southpaw1887

side-wheeler1890

moundsman1906

pretzel bender1908

starter1911

sidewinder1913

low-ball pitcher1915

fastballer1924

route-goer1924

reliever1925

hurler1926

fireballer1928

spitballer1928

screwballer1929

stopper1948

closer1980

middleman1985

1948 San Francisco Examiner 10 Mar. 20/4 I had been known as the ‘stopper’ for the Sox for a long time and I really had to be on September 13, 1946, in Cleveland, the day we clinched the American League championship.

1954 Collier's 9 July 45/1 The ‘stoppers’, usually the most dependable on the staff, are apt to get the nod most any time.

1979 Washington Post 21 Aug. d2/5 Flanagan..has replaced the injured Jim Palmer as the Oriole stopper and is baseball's hottest pitcher, winning seven of his last eight games.

1985 Los Angeles Times 8 July iii. 6/1 In the old days, before relief pitchers became such a factor in baseball, a ‘stopper’ was a starting pitcher.

1985 New Yorker 5 Aug. 33/3 Any self-respecting team should have at least one ace, or stopper.

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10. colloquial. A stopping train. (See stopping train n. at stopping adj. Compounds.)

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > stopping at some or all stations

slow train1838

omnibus train1846

way train1846

stopping train1854

stopper1969

1969 Guardian 11 Jan. 12/3 There was no boat train to Tilbury, only a drab, scheduled service stopper, taking tired Christmas shoppers from London to all stations east.

1976 Railway Mag. Aug. 409/1 We had to follow a d.m.u. ‘stopper’ and suffered a succession of signal checks.

1981 A. Vaughan Signalman's Morning xiv. 162 There was the stopper, waiting patiently at the home signal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stopper
释义	stoppern. Brit. /ˈstɒpə/, U.S. /ˈstɑpər/ Etymology: < stop v. + -er suffix¹. 1. A person who stops (see the senses of the verb). †a. One who obstructs the course of (a river); one who stops or fills up holes or chinks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > impounding of water > one who stopper1480 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > one who closes or shuts > one who closes apertures stopper1611 1480 Coventry Leet Bk. 455 They maken dayly als gret diligens as they can to knowe the stoppers of the seid Comien Ryuer,..and when eny be perceyued they ben punysshed. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxvii. 9 Thy calkers [margin. or, stoppers of chinks, Heb. strengthners] . View more context for this quotation b. Hunting. = earthstopper n.; (also) = stop n.² ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > attendant at hunt > other attendants marker1486 stopper1848 flapper1856 picker-up1977 1848 Rural Amusem. 125 The stopper belonging to the pack rarely neglected stopping these earths in the night before the meet. 1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 125/1 Pheasants were running here and there as they were afraid to face the stoppers. c. One who brings to a stand or causes to cease. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which stancher1453 ceaser?1504 stopper1533 arrester1628 ender1675 the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > one who stopper1533 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. 124 Þe remanent tribunis, quhilkis war stopparis of þe law Agrarie. 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. iv. sig. F2 When wail is weales, & stelth is welths chiefe stopper. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Estancheur, a stopper (of an issue of blood, &c.). 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 22 If any be stopped from following of his track the stopper shall answere the goods so tracked. 1913 H. S. Wilkinson in Rep. 7th Ann. Meeting Hist. Assoc. 3 How..could a leader..find a multitude of his fellow creatures willing to make themselves stoppers of bullets and to part with life itself in obedience to a word..? d. Pugilism. (See stop v. 15d.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > using specific action weaver1829 stopper1840 counterer1889 left jabber1905 southpaw1910 counterpuncher1932 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports §4038 He was..an excellent ‘stopper’, hitting with his right and stopping with his left. †e. Real Tennis. (See quot. 1585.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > player or participant tennis-playerc1440 stopper1548 ketchepillar1568 tenniser1579 striker-out1699 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxv^v The beste stopper that he hath at tenyce shall not well stoppe without a faulte. c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Dviii^v Another was ryd of his vi. C. li. at the tennis in a weke, by the fraud of his stopper. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 296/2 Factor,..the stopper, or he that marketh the chase in playeng, at tennise specially. f. A player whose office it is to stop balls; in Cricket, a wicket-keeper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > wicketkeeper keeper1752 stopper1752 wicketkeeper1752 stumper1773 wicket-keep1867 Aunt Sally1898 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > player > types of striker1699 kicker1829 non-striker1842 feeder1844 stopper1847 defender1851 hand-in1875 hand-out1875 back1880 attacker1884 field general1895 ball carrier1902 ball-handler1912 ball-winner1972 shotmaker1974 1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/2 When the ball has been in hand by one of the keepers or stoppers..he may go where he pleases till the next ball is bowl'd. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Stopper, a person at tennis, football, and other games, who stops the balls. 1904 Daily Chron. 21 May 9/4 This Sussex stumper..is the best ‘stopper’ in England. g. Association Football. A player whose function is to block attacks on goal from the middle of the field. Also attributive as stopper centre-half. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > types of marksman1927 marker1928 stopper1934 full back1958 sweeper1964 back four1966 libero1967 clogger1970 anchorman1974 target man1975 shadow1976 anchor1984 1934 D. Jack Soccer 124 The defensive pivot..is essentially a ‘stopper’, a destructive player if you like. 1941 Daily Mail 10 Feb. 4/2 Though occasionally outwitted by Lawton, Dykes made himself a nuisance as a stopper. 1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 9/1 He was an admirable foil for two clever attacking halves, for he was a stopper pure and simple. 1961 Times 10 Feb. 19/6 A fundamental change in tactics with the arrival of the ‘stopper’ centre~half. 1978 Time 3 July 53/2 He spent the first half, at his own behest, in the unlikely role of a stopper on Paolo Rossi—and very nearly gave away a goal. 2. a. Something that stops up a hole or passage. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture stanch1557 stop-hole1562 stopple1562 stopping1585 stopper1591 stop1771 stopgap1872 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Rombon A stopper, Obturatorium. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 20 The surest..stopper of the Pores of their Bodies against the Winter's cold. 1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 333 To tun it up into a Cask,..which stop up only with a loose stopper for two or three Days;..put a Peg into the vent hole loose. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. v. 98 Imagining..that the orifices of these nerves are provided with stoppers which the mind draws up at pleasure to give the animal spirits admittance. 1799 Sir T. Munro in G. R. Gleig Life T. Munro (1849) vii. 117 I pulled two stoppers of lint out of my ears. 1844 W. Dufton Nature & Treatm. Deafness 85 Sometimes the stopper of wax is removed by a single syringing. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) v. xxviii. 471 Thus the opponent's mouth is shut with a stopper of his own invention. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 7 The stop-cock being closed and the stopper removed from the upper orifice. figurative.1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 64 Lucy never intended to marry this commodious stopper of love-gaps. b. spec. A plug for closing the neck of a bottle, the end of a tube, or the hole for the egress of fluid from any vessel.Not usually applied to a cork or bung; most commonly it denotes a solid piece of glass, the lower part of which is shaped to fit the neck of a bottle, while the upper part is fashioned to serve as a handle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. stopple139. prop1513 vice1530 stopper1667 tank top1862 top1862 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 522 A Silver Tube, with a Silver Stopper. 1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 296 The Hole that let the Liquor run, Was wanting of a Stopper. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 228 A phial closed with a ground stopper. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 464/1 The patent caoutchouc stoppers, which, besides being..cheaper than corks, can [etc.]. 1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air 32 In a third series [of experiments] the cork stoppers used in the first and second series were abandoned, and glass stoppers employed. 1883 H. J. Powell Princ. Glass-making 74 Finally the stopper is ground into the mouth of the decanter. 1913 P. D. Scott-Moncrieff Paganism & Christianity Egypt ii. 25 (note) The old ‘Canopic’ vases..had stoppers in the form of genii supposed to protect the dead. figurative.1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 223 There is no such word as enough, as a stopper for good wine. c. A cork or plug for the mouth of a muzzle-loading musket, to keep out moisture and dust. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > stopper for muzzle tampiona1625 stopper1802 snap-cap1844 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 38 The men will be directed to replace their stoppers. d. = pipe stopper n. at pipe n.¹ Compounds 2, tobacco-stopper n. at tobacco n. Compounds 4.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > tamp stopper1622 tobacco-stopper1664 pipe stopper1734 1622 J. Taylor Water-cormorant C 2 A pyde coat Page, Who..his Tobacco fils, With stopper, tongs, and other vtensils. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 63 As the destruction of Pipes is the multiplication of Stoppers, so [etc.]. 1736 I. H. Browne Pipe of Tobacco ii. 8 Lip of Wax, and Eye of Fire:..And thy swelling ashey Crest, With my little Stopper prest. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 177 They say, that the Corruption of Pipes is the Generation of Stoppers. 1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 201 Flattening the tobacco in his pipe with its stopper. e. The plug of a ‘stopped’ organ pipe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > stopper stopple1771 stopper1852 tampion1864 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 80 The stopping is effected by a sort of capsule, similar to the lid of a round brass box, called the stopper. 1879 Organ Voicing 25 If..the stopper and joints of the pipe are sound. f. = stopping n. 4d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling flocks1277 capiton1612 padding1640 wattins1690 wadding1734 packing1779 pugging1801 stopping1823 chinking1837 stopper1879 air foam1937 the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > material or composition used for closure1651 packing1779 stopping1823 chinking1837 stopper1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 207/2 The nail holes, &c., are stopped with hard-stopper made of dry lead mixed with Japan gold size. 1912 H. J. Butler Motor Bodies & Chassis 115 Some add turps and tub lead to help the stopper to harden. This hard stopper is forced in carefully with the putty knife. †3. Anything that produces constipation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > constipation > cause of stopper1528 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. M ij Breadde made with littel leuen nourishethe moche, but the norishement therof is a stopper. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 23 Bread ouersweete is a stopper. †4. Anatomy. (See quot. 1683 and obturator n. 1) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > innominate bone > obturator foramen stopper1683 obturator foramen1824 thyroid foramen1890 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xx. 187 Two Muscles called Obturatores, or Stoppers, because they fill up the wide hole between the Os pubis and Hip-bone. †5. A shoemaker's tool: = stopping stick n. at stopping n. Compounds 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > other thumb-stall1589 stopping sticka1600 dresser1600 heel-block1600 rubbing pin1600 stopper1600 petty boy1688 shoe-bench1841 shoe hairs1859 fudge-wheel1874 shoe-hammer1875 size-stick1875 trimming-machine1877 heel breaster1879 slugger1892 waist-hammer1895 waist-iron1895 1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C3^v Heark you skomaker, haue you al your tooles, a good rubbing pinne, a good stopper, a good dresser [etc.]. 6. The upper pad of the sole of a greyhound's foot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > greyhound > parts of stopper1853 1853 ‘Stonehenge’ Greyhound vii. 158 When the cut is severe, as for instance, at the root of ‘the stopper’. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. iii. vii. 201 If a Stopper is detached from the leg.., it is far better to remove the hanging portion with the knife. 7. Something that causes to cease or brings to a stand. a. gen., esp. in the phrase to put a stopper on (? with mixture of sense 2), to put a stop to. colloquial or slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to astintc700 stathea1200 atstuntc1220 to put an end toa1300 to set end ofa1300 batec1300 stanch1338 stinta1350 to put awayc1350 arrestc1374 finisha1375 terminec1390 achievea1393 cease1393 removec1405 terminate?a1425 stop1426 surceasec1435 resta1450 discontinue1474 adetermine1483 blina1500 stay1525 abrogatea1529 suppressa1538 to set in or at stay1538 to make stay of1572 depart1579 check1581 intercept1581 to give a stop toa1586 dirempt1587 date1589 period1595 astayc1600 nip1600 to break off1607 snape1631 sist1635 to make (a) stop of1638 supersede1643 assopiatea1649 periodizea1657 unbusya1657 to put a stop to1679 to give the holla to1681 to run down1697 cessate1701 end1737 to choke off1818 stopper1821 punctuate1825 to put a stopper on1828 to take off ——1845 still1850 to put the lid on1873 on the fritz1900 to close down1903 to put the fritz on something1910 to put the bee on1918 switch1921 to blow the whistle on1934 the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > that which arrests stay?1523 scotch1639 to put a stopper on1828 stop-piece1840 backstop1851 stop-pin1869 sprag1878 arrester- the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which stancha1400 supersedeas1555 stop-gamble1579 stopa1586 supra sedeas1615 stop-game1659 to put a stopper on1828 off-switch1897 shut-off1951 1828 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. I. 188 The Lively Kid met with a stopper to his rush on the nob. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xx. 322 If you don't clap a stopper on that jaw of your's, by George, we'll cobb you. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lviii. 274 If it rested with him to decide, he would put a final stopper on the bird, and his master too. 1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. xcix. 88 The stopper has been put upon the utterance of ideas on both sides the Channel. 1898 B. Burleigh Sirdar & Khalifa vii. 107 A bullet so treated expands mushroom fashion upon striking any object and becomes a veritable ‘stopper’. 1901 Wide World Mag. 6 501/1 A hit, evidently, for the animal's progress became immediately slower. Then Armstrong put in the stopper, his bullet piercing the neck. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson v. 56 But that rejection..is no stopper to my suit. b. Mechanics. An appliance for stopping machinery. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which > specifically a machine stop-motion1851 stopper1863 stop-off1869 stop-finger1875 1863 Brit. Patent 1690 (1864) 5 By being..pressed against the..collar the stopper will arrest the rotary motion of the arbor. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stopper (Railway Engineering), a trailing-brake formerly used on inclined planes. It..was thrown into action by the pressure of the cars, if the rope broke. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 2/1 Ramsbottom..invented.. the weft-fork-stopper for looms. This stopper, as its name implies, stops the loom when the weft breaks. c. Hunting. An obstacle that is impassable or causes delay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > riding after hounds > type of fence timber1791 rasper1812 stopper1832 jump1858 oxer1859 flying fence1883 1832 Q. Rev. 47 237 The fence at the top is impracticable—Meltonicé, ‘a stopper;’ nothing for it but a gate, leading into a broad lane. 1859 Sporting Mag. Mar. 159 They..crossed the old canal, which was another stopper, and allowed the fox to get a long way ahead. 1860 J. E. Eardley-Wilmot Reminisc. T. A. Smith ii. 44 The famous story of Lord Kintore coming once to a ‘stopper’ in the Vale of White Horse, which defied the whole field. d. Rowing. The after part of a rowlock. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > rowlock > after part of stopper1897 1897 J. Jeffery Rowing 8 That part against which the oar is pressed in rowing is called the ‘thowl’, and the opposite, or after-thowl, is called the ‘stop’, or ‘stopper’. 1904 G. Rixon Rowing & Sculling 2 In some stock gigs it will be found that there is not sufficient room between the thowl and stopper, causing the oar to stick or ‘lock’ on a full reach forward. e. Bridge. A card of such value that it can reasonably be counted on, in conjunction with other cards in the same suit, to take a trick in that suit. Cf. stopped adj. 2d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > types of card card of re-entry1870 master card1872 singleton1876 entry1884 control1892 stopper1900 raiser1912 long card1913 loser1917 X1920 minor1927 top1929 side entry1937 penalty card1958 master1962 1900 R. F. Foster Bridge Man. 112 When the make is original, a guarded king is very likely a stopper in the dealer's suit. 1913 F. Irwin Auction High-lights 101 To bid ‘a no-trump’ declares nothing actually, except general help. The bid is often made on three stoppers. 1913 F. Irwin Auction High-lights 105 Four diamonds to the jack might not prove a stopper if the card next to the jack did not happen to be the ten-spot, but it is, and a sequence-stopper is always safe. 1933 Times 24 Jan. 13/4 This is a conventional and artificial response. It does not guarantee a ‘stopper’ in Spades. 1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 222 Some players bid 1 NT on a fair balanced hand even when they have no stopper. 1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 19c/2 If North has a diamond stopper, he bids no trump. f. Something which attracts and holds attention; something striking or impressive. colloquial. Cf. showstopper n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [noun] > subject of interest > designed to attract attraction1607 attractive1615 stunt1878 clou1883 gimmick1926 stopper1968 1968 Punch 21 Feb. 269/1 ‘What's your snap reaction, Jack?’ broke in Gringeworth. ‘It's um, well, certainly a stopper,’ said Tubstraw. ‘My God! It's the stopper of the century!’ exclaimed Gringeworth. 1973 Times 21 Feb. 13/8 ‘A memorable image.’ ‘It's a stopper.’ 8. Caribbean. A tree of the genus Eugenia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 88 Eugenia buxifolia... Gurgeon Stopper. Spanish Stopper. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 89 Eugenia monticola... Stopper. White Stopper. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 89 Eugenia procera... Red Stopper. 9. a. Nautical. (See quot. 1769².)For cat-, cathead-, dog-, ring-, wherrit-, wing-stopper, see the prefixed words. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for stopper1636 lanyard1669 lasher1669 racking1704 selvage1711 selvagee1750 gilguy1833 tier1844 stop1846 selvage-stropc1860 1636 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men (rev. ed.) 43 Nealed too, looke to your stoppers [earlier stops], your Anchor comes home, the ship's a drift. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 102. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 153 Stoppers of Anchors... Stoppers of the Bit. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Anchor is a cock-bill The anchor is suspended at the cat-head by its stopper. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Stoppers, certain short pieces of rope, which are usually knotted at one, or both ends... They are either used to suspend any weighty body, or to retain a cable, shroud, &c. in fixed position. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer III. i. 30 The stoppers were cut, and the anchors dropped. b. Fisheries. (See quot. 1883.) ΚΠ 1883 R. F. Walsh Irish Fisheries 11 At the bottom of the nets another rope runs from end to end, and this is called the ‘foot line’... Suspended from this foot line..are other ropes, each 27 feet long, and called ‘stoppers’. Compounds stopper-berry tree n. the Barbados cherry, Malpighia glabra. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > other American fruit-plants guava1555 anchovy pear1657 river pear1696 sour-sop tree1696 monkey apple1750 stopper-berry tree1750 sour-sop1753 chocho1756 sweet plum1796 pequi1819 Spanish plum1823 jaboticaba1824 christophene1830 Quito orange1846 pepino1850 mountain mango1861 chayote1884 Suriname cherry1895 feijoa1898 choko1902 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 176 The Stopper-Berry Tree; Lat. Malpighia. stopper-bolt n. Nautical (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > rigging supporting mast laterally > chains or chain-plates chain1627 chain-plate1692 stopper-bolt1711 chain1720 channel plate1833 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 37 To have Stopper-bolts for the Cables. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stopper-bolt, a large ring-bolt driven in the deck of a ship before the main-hatch, for securing the stoppers to. stopper-hitch n. Nautical (see quot. 1876). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 cat's paw1794 midshipman's hitch1794 reef knot1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 marling hitch1867 wind-knot1870 Portuguese knot1871 rosette1875 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 monkey fist1917 Spanish bowline1968 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 410/2 Stopper-hitch, a knot for stoppering the fall of a tackle, &c. stopper-hole n. (see quot. 1869). ΚΠ 1869 S. V. J. Day Puddling 2/1 in W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools In the lower side of the charging door an opening is formed called the stopper-hole, through which the puddler introduces his rabble for working up the mass of iron. stopper-knot n. Nautical a kind of knot used for the ends of stoppers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 cat's paw1794 midshipman's hitch1794 reef knot1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 marling hitch1867 wind-knot1870 Portuguese knot1871 rosette1875 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 monkey fist1917 Spanish bowline1968 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 56 A thimble is spliced in one end and a ‘double wall’ or deck stopper-knot, is made on the other. stopper-net n. (see quot. 1792). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > seal-hunting > [noun] > net shoal-net1792 stopper-net1792 1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. Gloss. p. xv Stopper-net, a large net for catching seals, which is made to fit the place in which it is fixed. Derivatives ˈstopperless adj. without stoppers. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > open and unobstructed > by bung, plug, etc. unbunged1731 uncorked1791 plugless1836 unstoppered1861 stopperless1863 corkless1888 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 1 Aug. 540/2 The stopperless cruets on the spindle-shanked sideboard were in a miserably dejected state. Draft additions 1993 h. Baseball slang. A pitching ace, spec. (a) a starting pitcher depended on to win a game or reverse a losing streak; (b) a relief pitcher who prevents the opposing team from scoring highly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > pitcher pitcher1845 relief pitcher1884 southpaw1887 side-wheeler1890 moundsman1906 pretzel bender1908 starter1911 sidewinder1913 low-ball pitcher1915 fastballer1924 route-goer1924 reliever1925 hurler1926 fireballer1928 spitballer1928 screwballer1929 stopper1948 closer1980 middleman1985 1948 San Francisco Examiner 10 Mar. 20/4 I had been known as the ‘stopper’ for the Sox for a long time and I really had to be on September 13, 1946, in Cleveland, the day we clinched the American League championship. 1954 Collier's 9 July 45/1 The ‘stoppers’, usually the most dependable on the staff, are apt to get the nod most any time. 1979 Washington Post 21 Aug. d2/5 Flanagan..has replaced the injured Jim Palmer as the Oriole stopper and is baseball's hottest pitcher, winning seven of his last eight games. 1985 Los Angeles Times 8 July iii. 6/1 In the old days, before relief pitchers became such a factor in baseball, a ‘stopper’ was a starting pitcher. 1985 New Yorker 5 Aug. 33/3 Any self-respecting team should have at least one ace, or stopper. Draft additions 1993 10. colloquial. A stopping train. (See stopping train n. at stopping adj. Compounds.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > stopping at some or all stations slow train1838 omnibus train1846 way train1846 stopping train1854 stopper1969 1969 Guardian 11 Jan. 12/3 There was no boat train to Tilbury, only a drab, scheduled service stopper, taking tired Christmas shoppers from London to all stations east. 1976 Railway Mag. Aug. 409/1 We had to follow a d.m.u. ‘stopper’ and suffered a succession of signal checks. 1981 A. Vaughan Signalman's Morning xiv. 162 There was the stopper, waiting patiently at the home signal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stopperv. Brit. /ˈstɒpə/, U.S. /ˈstɑpər/ Etymology: < stopper n. 1. transitive. Nautical. To secure with a stopper. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > tie up trice?a1400 stopper1769 stop1771 gripe1840 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Bosser le cable, to stopper the cable. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 234 Jump down, then, and see it [sc. the cable] double bitted and stoppered at thirty fathoms. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 234 The first reef-pendant is stoppered and hitched round the boom. 2. a. To close or secure (a bottle, etc.) with a stopper. Also with down. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > with a plug or stopper to make a stoupaille of1426 bung1600 plug1630 cork1659 spile1691 stopple?1795 stopper1827 stopper1869 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 441 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The milk~can is filled full of milk, and so stoppered down that there is no room for the least motion to churn the milk. 1915 Morning Post 21 June 8/1 A quart bottle very carefully stoppered. b. Metallurgy. (See quot. 1884¹.) Also with down. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal tin1398 leadc1440 ironc1450 lay1472 copper1530 braze1552 silverize1605 foliate1665 plate1686 whiten1687 foil1714 blanch1729 quicken1738 amalgam1789 quick1790 aluminize1791 plate1791 zincify1801 platinize1825 resilver1832 galvanize1839 electroplate1843 zinc1843 electro-silver1851 platinate1858 electrotin1859 white-lead1863 palladiumize1864 white-metal1864 brassc1865 nickelize1865 nickel-plate1872 nickel1875 stopper1884 electro1891 sherardize1904 steel1911 stellite1934 flame-plate1954 steel-face1961 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xx. §770 The metal is run into the several moulds, which are each ‘stoppered’..either with an iron plate, or simply by throwing on a shovelful of sand, which is then covered with an iron plate, wedged down [etc.]. 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xx. §809 The ingots are properly stoppered down, by throwing a shovelful of sand into the mould on the top of the still fluid metal, and then covering it with an iron plate fastened down by a cross bar [etc.]. 3. To fit with a stopper. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > with a plug or stopper to make a stoupaille of1426 bung1600 plug1630 cork1659 spile1691 stopple?1795 stopper1827 stopper1869 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 355 The bottles should be wide-mouthed and accurately stoppered. 1860 Repertory Patent Inventions 36 443 Improvements in Closing or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other Receptacles. 1883 H. J. Powell Princ. Glass-making 73 The mouth of the vessel to be stoppered. 4. slang. To stop; to ‘put the stopper on’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to astintc700 stathea1200 atstuntc1220 to put an end toa1300 to set end ofa1300 batec1300 stanch1338 stinta1350 to put awayc1350 arrestc1374 finisha1375 terminec1390 achievea1393 cease1393 removec1405 terminate?a1425 stop1426 surceasec1435 resta1450 discontinue1474 adetermine1483 blina1500 stay1525 abrogatea1529 suppressa1538 to set in or at stay1538 to make stay of1572 depart1579 check1581 intercept1581 to give a stop toa1586 dirempt1587 date1589 period1595 astayc1600 nip1600 to break off1607 snape1631 sist1635 to make (a) stop of1638 supersede1643 assopiatea1649 periodizea1657 unbusya1657 to put a stop to1679 to give the holla to1681 to run down1697 cessate1701 end1737 to choke off1818 stopper1821 punctuate1825 to put a stopper on1828 to take off ——1845 still1850 to put the lid on1873 on the fritz1900 to close down1903 to put the fritz on something1910 to put the bee on1918 switch1921 to blow the whistle on1934 1821 W. Scott Pirate III. xii. 279 Stopper your jaw, Dick, will you? 1905 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 3/4 This elegant Cyril Wentworth, who gaily ‘stoppers’ men and women by the dozen if they happen to thwart him in the slightest degree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1480v.1769
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