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CIDE DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS
stop order | stop over | stop payment | stop press | stop up | stop-gap | stop-loss order | stop-over | stopcock | stope | stopen

stop-gap

CIDE DICTIONARY

stop-gapn. 
     That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.  [1913 Webster]
    "Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

stop-gap

Stopper

N stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap, rammer, ram, ramrod, piston, stop-gap, wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet, cover, valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve, janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.


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