ring-stopper
Nautical
noun
An appliance that fastens the ring of a raised anchor to the cat-head; a cat-head stopper.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- trophic pyramid
- -trophism
- tropho-
- trophobiont
- trophoblast
- trophoblastic
- trophochromatin
- trophocyte
- trophogenic
- trophology
- tropholytic
- trophonema
- trophoneurosis
- trophoneurotic
- Trophonian
- trophonucleus
- trophophoric
- trophoplasm
- trophosomal
- trophosome
- trophosperm
- trophosphere
- trophospongia
- trophospongial
- trophotaxis