One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.
Preventer Breechings were then fitted, and answered so well that the practice was continued at sea as usual.
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut; tackles got upon the backstays; and everything done to keep all snug and strong.
The strength of all hands soon brought the tack to the boom end, and the sheet was trimmed down, and the preventer and the weather brace hauled taut to take off the strain.
Through the preventer stern-post, reeve guys, and at the fore part of them fix tackles, and then put the machine overboard.
By the guys on the after part of the rudder and tackles affixed to them, the ship may be steered, taking care to bowse taut the tackles on the preventer stern-post, to keep it close to the proper stern-post.
In boats that have a forestay set up to the stem head there is less likelihood of this accident happening; but it is always best to have a preventer fitted.
The only safeguard lies in rigging a preventer stay that will set up with a tackle, the fall leading inboard.
In another chapter I have told you how to rig a tackle preventer for use when going to sea.
Before you do this be sure and set up the topping lift, and weather preventer if one is fitted.
For instance, in the months since we left Baltimore there had never been a moment, day or night, even when preventer tackles were rigged, that a man had not stood at the wheel.
A ship hove-to with preventertackles on the rudder-head is unmanageable.
The yards had been previously slung in chains, stoppers prepared for the rigging, and preventer braces rove.
We could see his men aloft, busily engaged in slinging yards, stoppering topsail sheets, getting up preventer braces, and making such other preparations, as the Victory or Royal Sovereign might have made on the eve of Trafalgar.
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut, tackles got upon the backstays, and everything done to keep all snug and strong.
The strength of all hands soon brought the tack to the boom-end, and the sheet was trimmed down, and the preventer and the weather brace hauled taut to take off the strain.
The strength of all hands soon brought the tack to the boom-end, and the sheet was trimmed down, and the preventer and the weather brace hauled taught to take off the strain.
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taught; tackles got upon the backstays; and each thing done to keep all snug and strong.
This preventer takes the form of some porous and heat absorbing material, such as aluminum shavings, contained in a small cavity through which the gas passes on its way to the head.
In order to prevent the return of the flame through the acetylene tube under the influence of the high pressure oxygen some form of back flash preventer is usually incorporated in the torch at or near the point at which the acetylene enters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
