Interclude
//ɪntə(ɹ)ˈkluːd// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt. transitive
"[W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]"
Example
More examples"[W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]"
Etymology
From Latin interclūdō; inter (“between”) + claudō (“to shut”). See close.
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