preventer
a person or thing that prevents.
Nautical.
any of various lines set up to reinforce or relieve ordinary running or standing rigging.
a line for preventing a sail from jibbing.
Origin of preventer
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How to use preventer in a sentence
Is the HPV vaccine a life-saving cancer preventer…or a potentially deadly dose for girls?
The blowout preventer sits near the seabed and is the crew's last line of defense against what happened on April 20.
The next thing to be done was to secure the tents with preventer-stays, as the seamen called them.
The Missing Ship | W. H. G. Kingstonpreventer stays: Additional ropes set up taut to prevent spars carrying away when a vessel is under a press of canvas.
The Sportswoman's Library, v. 2 | Variouspreventer—A rope used to prevent the straining or breaking of a spar or sail.
On Yacht Sailing | Thomas Fleming Day
They would then have rigged preventer-stays and shrouds on their shaky spars, had there been time; but there was not.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea | Morgan RobertsonThey even put preventer stays on the masts and on the boilers to keep them from rolling out of the crazy old wagon.
Boy Scouts in the North Sea | G. Harvey Ralphson
British Dictionary definitions for preventer
/ (prɪˈvɛntə) /
a person or thing that prevents
nautical a rope or other piece of gear rigged to prevent a sail from gybing
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