gát

• breakwater

• inhibitor, inhibitory, obstructive, retardant

• to arrest, to balk, to bar, to baulk, to block, to clog, to clog up, to cramp, to detain, to embarrass, to hamper, to impede, to obstruct, to retard, to throttle, to traverse

• hampered

• hurdle-race, hurdles, hurdling

• to forestall

• to dam

• retarder

• to be a bar to sg

• obstructively

• to interfere

• swaddling-bends, swaddling-clothes

• check, hindrance, traverse

• arrester, arrestor

• freeboard

• to obstruct the traffic

• to balk sy's plans

• spillover

• oneself

• to hole

• have a debauch