Interclude

//ɪntə(ɹ)ˈkluːd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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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