Someone or something that stops something.
“It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”
A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
Put a stopper in the knot.
To close a container by using a stopper.
He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
From stop + -er.
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