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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a stopper or heavy rope put on to relieve the regular stopper when at anchor in a heavy sea, or to bitt the cable or fleet the messenger.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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chained_bear "'See, they undo the deck-stoppers, or dog-stoppers as some superficial observers call them—they loosen the starboard cable, the cable on the right-hand side—they throw off the turn about the riding-bitts! What force and dexterity!'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 64 Mar 3, 2008