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Arrester

noun
1.
A restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.  Synonym: arrester hook.



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"Arrester" Quotes from Famous Books



... connection can go to a water pipe. To protect the house and your apparatus from lightning insert a fuse and a little carbon block lightning arrester such as are used by the telephone company in their installations of house phones. You can also use a so-called "vacuum lightning arrester." In either case the connections will be as shown in Fig. 111. If you use a loop antenna, of ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills


Words linked to "Arrester" :   arrest, spark arrester, carrier, flattop, constraint, attack aircraft carrier, aircraft carrier, restraint, arrester hook


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