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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 31 To stop is when you come to an Anchor, and veares out your Cable, but by degrees till the Ship ride well, then they say stop the Ship.

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 101 When they come to an Anchor, and have let run-out as much..of Cabell..as will make the ship ride, or that the ship be in a current, where it is best to stop her a little by degrees, then they say, Stopp the ship; and so hold~fast the Cabell, and then veere-out a little more, and so stopp her fully, to let her ride.

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 103 The use of them [sc. stoppers] is chiefly..to stopp the cabels, when they come to an Anchor, that it may goe-out by little and little.

1775 A. Dalrymple Coll. Voy. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 404 At noon, close reefed top-sails, stopt the cable, and came to sail.

1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 6 The word of command, ‘Stop her!’ was loudly vociferated by a bluff, short, Dirk Hatteraick-looking pilot.

1841 Punch 1 35 The dirty lad below, whose exclamation of ‘Ease her—stop her—one turn ahead’—may one day be destined to give the word of command on the quarter deck.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stop Her!, an order to check the cable in being payed out.