noun. One who or that which arrests.

noun. In Scots law, the person at whose instance an arrest is made. See arrest, n.

noun. One who arrests.

noun. The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.

noun. One who places under arrest.

noun. A device that stops or prevents, as a spark arrester that prevents sparks from being released to start fires.

noun. a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier

"GOELZ: And -- and you can have these things called arrester beds that will stop an overrun, but you really need 500 or 650 feet of arrester bed to stop a plane."

constraint  restraint  

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arrestor