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preventer

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
preventer/prɪˈvɛntə/

▶noun

1 a person or thing that prevents something.

2 Sailing an extra line rigged to support a piece of rigging or to prevent the boom from gybing.

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