Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To retard the motion of, as a carriage by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving; stop; impede.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To retard the motion of, as a carriage, by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by means of a chain or otherwise.
- transitive verb obsolete Hence, to stop; to impede.
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- verb archaic To
obstruct .
Etymologies
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From Latin sufflāminō ("clog”, “block").
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