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Arrester

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who places under arrest.

n. A device that stops or prevents, as a spark arrester that prevents sparks from being released to start fires.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who arrests.

n. The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who or that which arrests.

n. In Scots law, the person at whose instance an arrest is made. See arrest, n.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier

Word Usage

"GOELZ: And -- and you can have these things called arrester beds that will stop an overrun, but you really need 500 or 650 feet of arrester bed to stop a plane."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

restraint constraint

Variant

arrestor

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