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Selvagee :: Selvagee (n.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc..

Delay :: Delay (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

Stopper :: Stopper (n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part..

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

Bassoon :: Bassoon (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc..

Cease :: Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.

Stopped :: Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce..

Blastophoral :: Blastophoral (a.) Alt. of Blastophori.

Stor :: Stopship (n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.

Stopping :: Stopping (n.) Material for filling a cavity.

Fipple :: Fipple (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music..

Harmonium :: Harmonium (n.) A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops..

Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..

Estopping :: Estopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Esto.

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..

Cork :: Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork..

Stoppled :: Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple..

Sew :: Sew (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip..

Delay :: Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

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