stopperingn.
/ˈstɒpərɪŋ/ The action of stopper v.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > binding or tying up
marling1422
wooldingc1440
tricing1627
stoppering1805
frapping1867
1805 in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 577 In ten minutes our rigging was past all stoppering.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 107 (4) The proper stoppering of the fall, when necessary.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1805- to have a person at an advantage
- to have a person at avail
- to have a person at feud
- to have a person beat
- to have a person by the heels
- to have a person cold
- to have a person for breakfast
- to have a person in contempt
- to have a person in etc reverence
- to have a person in great reverence
- to have a person in reverence
- to have a person in schooling
- to have a person in the palm of one's hand
- to have a person on a slow boat to china
- to have a person on also upon the hip
- to have a person or thing skinned
- to have a person or thing skinned to death
- to have a person pegged
- to have a person wrapped around one's finger
- to have a person's back
- to have a person's guts for garters
- to have a person's i-wald
- to have a person's iwald
- to have a person's name on it
- to have a person's number on it