Shipping lines, railways and the postal organisation were the real nervous system; and Judy Pepper, strike-Preventer rather than strike-breaker, was getting the ju-jitsu of it at his finger ends long before Syndicalism became aware of one of its most potent weapons.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
We could then perceive a rope fast to each leg of the sufferer, which was pulled with violence by people under the gallows, and an additional rope, to use a sea term, a Preventer, was round his neck, and secured to the gallows, to act in case of accident to the one by which the body was suspended.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
He knew that this wild creature was in league with a gang of the most desperate smugglers that the "Preventer men" had to contend with.
"Looking Seaward Again"
Walter Runciman