(v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack.
Example Sentences:
Nother
Definition:
(conj.) Neither; nor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nother morning, another news story of a woman being gang raped in India's cities.
(2) A nother day has just broken in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.
(3) A nother week, and another set of Republicans have endorsed Hillary Clinton .
(4) Surveys of low-income women in Los Angeles County in 1985 and 1986 were used to examine the relative impact of child-bearing motivations versus life circumstances on the intention to have a(nother) child.
(5) A nother week, another heated debate over the tactics and language used by the feminist protest group Femen, which last Thursday launched an International Topless Jihad Day.
(6) A nother day, another list of things that pregnant women might do wrong.
(7) A nother mishap yesterday rammed into the back of Iain Duncan Smith's pile-up of car crashes, as his roll-out of new disability benefits was delayed, yet again .
(8) A nother week, another ill-conceived bout of social media diarrhoea.
(9) A nother week, another fraught selection of noises off at Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs may be on course for a creditable fifth place in the Premier League but this season will surely take its place as one of the more relentlessly tortured episodes of par-score achievement in recent Premier League history.
(10) A nother day, another viral video of a beauty queen fluffing an interview.
(11) A nother day, another opportunity to whack the bonds of the weaklings of the eurozone.
(12) A nother day, another anti-gay marriage statement from some Roman Catholic grandee.
(13) A nother prime minister has gone, this one the self-proclaimed champion for Indigenous people whose personal mission was to redress our country’s “national failure”.
(14) A nother of the government’s mad, bad and ill-prepared schemes is in deep trouble.
(15) # MGEITF August 23, 2012 7.14pm BST Lisa O'Carroll continues: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) lis Murdoch: My parents spoke to us over breakfast table about our purpose, that we could be obliged to be outsiders and constant nomads August 23, 2012 and lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) L Murdoch talks about building TV cathedrals of future combining vision of Steve Jobs + Lord Reith (nother ref 2 value of public service TV) August 23, 2012 Updated at 7.18pm BST 7.11pm BST Lisa O'Carroll has just tweeted: lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) Lis Murdoch lets her respect for her dad shine through.
(16) The operative protocols, conditions and experimentation, as well as the results, will be studied as objectively as possible so as to determine the essential efficacy of one or nother product.
(17) A nother day has passed in Australian politics, and, with it, the prime-ministerial career of Julia Gillard .
(18) A nother Sunday, another vote in the Greek parliament, another self-imposed punishment beating as the parliament in Athens votes through fresh austerity measures.
(19) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(20) A nother engine breaks away from Gordon Brown's fuselage, and the damage done looks set to bring him crashing out of the sky.