(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:27:21

Stop"-gap` (?), n.

That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.

Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare.

 

© Webster 1913.

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