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                    noun. 
                    In cricket, a wicket-keeper or stumper.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One who keeps, observes, or obeys.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One who has the charge or keeping of anything; a caretaker; a custodian: often forming the second element of a compound: as, the keeper of the seals; a house keeper; a game keeper.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One who maintains or carries on as proprietor; an owner or independent controller: as, a store keeper; an inn keeper.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One who stays or abides.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    One who holds or maintains possession.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    That which keeps; something that serves as a guard or protection.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A key which admits of being readily inserted and removed at pleasure to keep an object in its place.
                  
                
                  
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                    A loop on the end of a strap fitted with a bnckle, through which the other end is run after passing through the buckle; a small clasp.
                  
                
                  
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                    The box on a door-jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrndes when shot.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A jamnut.
                  
                
                  
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                    A piece of soft iron placed in contact with the poles of a magnet when not in use, which tends, by induction, to maintain and even increase the power of the magnet; an armature.
                  
                
                  
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                    In the electromagnet of a dynamo, one of the lateral projections from the polar extremities to bring them just as near to the revolving armature as they can be without actually touching it.
                  
                
                  
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                    A reelkeeper.
                  
                
                  
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                    The mousing of a hook, which keeps it from being accidentally disengaged
                  
                
                  
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                    The gripper of the flint in a flint-lock gun.