Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Interclude

Interclude , transitive verb

[Latin intercludere, interclusum; inter between + claudere to shut. See Close, and compare Interclose.]

To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt. — Mitford
So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded. — Boyle