preventer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that prevents.
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Nautical.
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any of various lines set up to reinforce or relieve ordinary running or standing rigging.
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a line for preventing a sail from jibbing.
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noun
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a person or thing that prevents
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nautical a rope or other piece of gear rigged to prevent a sail from gybing
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A diligent plumber will also calculate the pressure loss from the height of the bathroom above the water meter, the pressure loss through the water meter, a backflow preventer and any other pressure regulators.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024
For much of that summer, many Americans were transfixed by an online “spill cam” that broadcast live images of the crude oil billowing out from the broken blowout preventer.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2020
The blowout preventer was supposed to be the last-ditch defense against high-pressure gas and oil bursting out of the well.
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2016
A blowout preventer, which hadn’t been serviced for nine years, failed to close.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2016
What could be done, however, was done; and the entire crew were set to work, some to get up preventer back-stays and secure the fore-mast, and others to convert the spare spars into jury-masts.
From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by Staniland, C.J.
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