Stopper

subs. (common).—A FINISHER (q.v.); a SETTLER (q.v.): see WHOPPER.

  1836.  R. H. DANA, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, 304. The last resort, that of speculating upon the future, seemed now to fail us, for our discouraging situation, and the danger we were really in (as we expected every day to find ourselves drifted back among the ice) “clapped a STOPPER” upon all that.

  1887.  The Field, 19 Feb. Here we come immediately upon a STOPPER, unless it can be happily shunted.