stopper

Lab., Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of net-trap placed permanently across narrow channels, for catching seals.

Quotations

1771

The boats made only one trip each to-day; one of them to the shoal-nets; the other to the stoppers, and brought in sixty-three seals.

1861

There is another method of catching the seal by what is called the stopper-net.