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Obviator
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preventer
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A preventer , or jibe-guard , is a mechanical device on a sailing vessel which limits the boom 's ability to swing unexpectedly across the boat due to an unplanned accidental jibe . During an unplanned accidental jibe (or gybe ), neither the crew nor the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, prevents. 2 (context nautical English) An arrangement, made with ropes and blocks, that prevents the boom of a sailing boat from performing a jibe. 3 (context nautical English) Any of various lines set up to reinforce or relieve ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preventer \Pre*vent"er\, n. One who goes before; one who forestalls or anticipates another. [Obs.] --Bacon. One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease. (Naut.) An auxiliary rope to strengthen a ...
Usage examples of preventer.
Preventer, or Inner Breeching, will be found indispensable to avoid accident when running out to leeward in a sea-way.
On such an occasion the preventer breeching is invaluable, and will be the best safeguard, if fitted so that when well stretched it will not permit the fore trucks to ascend on the curve of the Fore-hurter, for it is this which strains the strap of the Compressor.
Preventer Breechings were then fitted, and answered so well that the practice was continued at sea as usual.
Humming Scottish tunes, he spent hours by the preventers under the floor of the derrick, busying himself with a magnetograph and making notes.
Once the yards were braced to satisfaction, and the preventers and parrels rigged, it was time to layout on the yard.
Surprise was a well-found, weatherly ship, and she rigged preventer backstays, braces, shrouds, and of course stays throughout, as well as rolling tackles, a full suit of storm-canvas bent well in time and her topgallant masts struck down on deck.
Lewrie took hold of the preventer backstay that was already twanging with the weight of the men who had pre- ceded him and began to descend, after glancing over to sting Rolston with a smug look.
He took a death grip on the preventer backstay and locked his legs about it tighter than a virgin, without a further bit of thought.
Many a watch had been spent in sending up preventer backstays, braces, shrouds and stays and in attending to new earings, robands, reef-points, reef-tackles for the courses and spilling-lines for the topsails, to say nothing of new sheets and clewlines fore and aft.
The sea was heavy, and we were compelled to put a purchase on the fore and main yards, with preventers to windward, to ease the launch in going over the side.
He would give it another preventer travelling backstay, and if that did not answer he would turn to his old caper of getting light hawsers to the mastheads, however uncouth it might look.