† stopn.1
Obsolete.
1. A pail or bucket.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > pail
stopc725
piggin1554
whinnock1555
leglen1558
bowk1663
gawn1688
horse-bucket1827
pipkin1855
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > bucket or pail > [noun]
stopc725
amberOE
skeelc1330
pail1341
bucketa1382
stoup1397
eshin1547
whinnock1555
bowk1663
cruck1688
noggin1843
c725 Corpus Gloss. B. 147 Blohonicula, stoppa.
c890 Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 11 Þa becom an fisc in þone wæterstoppan.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 123/24 Situla, stoppa.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 497 Paile..Stoppe.
1397–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 601 Pro stoppes correi empt. pro camera d'ni Prioris.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/1 Stoppe, vessel for mylkynge, multra.
1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 195/2 Five barellis,..thre treyn stoppis.
1548 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 174 To serche ffor stoppes, roopes, ladders and bokettes of lether.
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 389 Stops, small well-buckets.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Stop, the bucket of a well; formerly any bucket.
2. A holy-water stoup.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > holy water stoup > [noun]
water stone1379
stop1419
stockc1450
stoup1500
holy-water stock1530
font1542
holy-water stone1566
piscina1797
bénitier1853
benatura1873
1419 Will of William Maydeston' (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/2B) f. 128 Item lego prioratui de ledes..simul cum vno vase argent' vocat' holiwaterstop' vno holiwaterstokke argent' vno paxbreed argent' cum vno pari crwettes argent'.
1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 67 Also for primyng of þe haly water stop, viij d.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 That no merchaunt Straungier..brynge into this Realme of Englond..halywater stoppes.
1552 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1874) 9 273 Item a holy water stopp of latten.
3. Scottish. A pitcher, flagon, tankard. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > flagon
wine-pot14..
stop1489
flagon1512
livery pot?1578
flagonet1598
porter-pot1764
pitch-tankard1890
carafe1950
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
1489 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 131/1 A stop comptor, a gret pot, & a half galloun stop.
1490 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 175 A water stop of siluer.
1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 176/2 A quarte stop price ij s.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 321 For five vnce of siluir of maid werk in a stop lid of the Kingis.
1540 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 312 Ane silver stop weyand xij pund wecht twa unces.
1697 Inventory in Scott. Notes & Queries (1900) Dec. 90/2 A tinn quart stop, a pynt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
stopn.2
/stɒp/, U.S. /stɑp/ I. Action of stopping.
1. † d. to give a stop to (an agent or activity): to check or arrest the progress of. Obsolete.† e. to make (a) stop of = f. Obsolete.
a. The action or an act of impeding, obstructing, or arresting; the fact of being impeded or arrested; a check, arrest, or obstruction (of motion or activity).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion
arrestc1385
stop1544
checkc1555
stoppage1775
pull-up1834
arrestment1836
arresting1849
fetch-up1866
hold-back1888
seize-up1912
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun]
withsetting1340
arrestc1400
stanchingc1400
prevention1447
forbarringc1449
stop1544
preventing1563
stopple1578
cohibition1586
intercepting1598
stonda1604
attachment1609
preclusion1616
antevertinga1656
aversion1664
interpellation1814
suppression1859
stemming1914
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. clxxxviii. sig. I iijv That thy souldiours maye haue plentye, withoute any stop or entercourse of theyr enemyes.
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda i. v. 15 Through which our passage cannot finde a stop Till it haue prickt the hart of Christendome.
c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 350 They..entrit into the toun without stop.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. ix. 76 Therefore we must not suppose such an Universal stop of waters.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 25 He..had the Money paid him without any Stop or Question ask'd.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 314 There was a general Stop of Trade.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 82 Our Federate Volunteers will file through the inner gateways... Nay there, should some stop occur, [etc.].
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xvi. 137 If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
b. An act of stopping the ball in a ball-game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > manner of playing ball
bata1400
back-swing1577
banding1589
stroke1662
stop1773
swipe1788
hit1810
straik1820
screwing1825
return1833
volleying1837
return stroke1838
volley1851
swiper1853
shot1868
handling1870
screw kick1870
mishit1882
smash1882
misfield1886
fumble1895
run-up1897
mishitting1900
balloon1904
carryback1905
placement1909
tonk1922
trick shot1924
retrieve1952
sizzler1960
undercut1960
shotmaking1969
1773 J. Duncombe Surrey Triumphant in T. Evans Old Ballads (1784) IV. 331 Davis, for stops and catches fam'd.
c. The order given to a fire-brigade station not to continue sending out in force. Also stop-message.
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1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 114/2 Roused me four times..for stops for chimbleys [note, a fireman's warning].
1890 Times 25 Apr. 10/2 The fire was so well under control that a stop message was despatched.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvi. sig. Z7v But Basilius, (swearing he would put out her eyes, if she stird a foote to trouble his daughter) gaue her a stoppe for that while.
1611 G. H. tr. Anti-Coton 63 Words that had given vs the stop, had they been put in the entrance (of his discourse).
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 17 In hast, I snatch'd my weapon up, And gave their Hellish Rage a stop.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §107 'Tis a great Step towards the mastery of our Desires, to give this stop to them, and shut them up in Silence.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 56 This is..not to make a stoppe of contentments but to husband them.
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. Dv What's he? One sent I feare from my dead mother, to make stop Of our intended voyage.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 110 This made a sudden and mighty Stop of that Issue of Money.
f. to put a stop to (an activity, something active): to check, restrain; to arrest the progress of; to bring to an end, abolish.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida i. i. 3 But you grave pair..Must put a stop to these incroaching Ills.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 26 For putting a stop to these fires, there are men called Baltadgis.
1702 Reasons for addressing his Maj. to invite the Electress, etc. 2 Putting all imaginable Stops to what they cannot barefac'dly hinder.
1735 S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia 111 That a stop might be put to the inroads of the Galles.
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 304 The coal-trade at Newcastle was for some time put a stop to by a mutiny of the keelmen.
1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xvii. 166 Henry..put a stop to this.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate ii This is very curious,..and must be put a stop to.
g. An act of stopping and questioning a suspected person.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > other specific methods
shadowing1890
entrapment1899
obbo1933
stop1968
sting1976
1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman iii. 21 These stops winkled out the juveniles who had absconded.
1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard ii. 47 He appreciates encouragement, and has been advised..about stops on the street.
2. In certain specific uses: A veto or prohibition (against); an embargo (upon goods, trade); a refusal to pass tokens; an order stopping payment of a bank note, cheque, or bill. stop of the exchequer, the suspension of payment of the Government debt to the London goldsmiths in 1672.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > veto
veto1629
stop1634
1634 in J. Simon Ess. Irish Coins (1749) 115 Complaints..concerning the stop and refusall of farthing tokens.
1675 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 293 To take off the stopp in the Court of Excheqr against the Convicting of Papists.
1723 London Gaz. No. 6133/4 A Stop is put against any Claim at the South-Sea-Office.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 178 Hence proceeded the stop of the Exchequer.
1855 F. Playford Pract. Hints Investing Money 44 A ‘Writ of Distringas’ is a process, by which persons beneficially interested in any Stock standing in the name of other parties may..place a Distringas or stop on the transfer thereof.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. vii. 683 (note) An Order in Council..directed a stop to be made of payment of Exchequer moneys.
1892 W. G. Cordingley Commerc. Guide 160 A ‘stop’ is usually put on bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, bonds and similar documents when they have been lost or stolen. The ‘stop’ consists in writing a letter to the banker from whom the documents are payable, giving him instructions not to pay them, or not to do so without inquiry.
1907 W. G. Cordingley London Commerc. Dict. 162 In such cases..it is usual to land the goods on arrival and put a ‘Stop’ upon them—that is, instruct the wharfinger..not to part with them until the freight has been paid.
3. The act of filling or closing up an aperture.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > closing an aperture
stopa1616
plugging1708
heading up1843
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 288 A Breach that craues a quick expedient stoppe . View more context for this quotation
4.
a. The act of coming to a stand; a halt in a journey or walk; a cessation of progress or onward movement. Often coupled with stay. to make a stop.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > act of
arrestc1385
stop?1575
stand1591
?1575 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding ii. iv. E v b I tolde you before, that you shuld trot your horse right out in the midle forowe betwixte the ringes vntill you come to the place of stop.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme civ. 68 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 160 Thou makst the sunne..Well knowe [MSS B, χ; MS A: knowes] the start, and stop of dayly race.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrv/1 When he took leave now, he made a hundred stops.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ii. xxxiii. 16 How Kingdoms sprung, and how they made their stop I well observ'd.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 No stop, no stay, but Clouds of Sand arise. View more context for this quotation
1776 J. Entick Hist. London I. 489 The next stop was at a pageant at Leadenhall.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 36 Many a stop and stay he makes.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxv. 245 Mrs. Crummles advancing with that stage walk, which consists of a stride and a stop alternately.
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 168 He [the pony] would check and counter-check in mid-career each break of the truant's with stops and turns so sudden, that once [etc.].
b. A halt or stay occupying some considerable space of time; a stay or sojourn made at a place, esp. in the course of a journey.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
resting?a1425
arresta1500
bait1580
alto1591
halt1598
station1604
stop1650
stoppage1840
noon halt1843
stop-off1869
lay-over1873
stop-over1881
water stop1896
overnight1936
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico iii. 50 Her husband Octavio Duke of Parma (who never liked the stop of the Spanish army in the Netherlands).
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 76 From thence [they] rode Post to Paris, where they made some stop.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 340 Nor did we make any long Stop here, but hasten'd on towards Jarawena.
1793 L. Williams Children's Friend I. 221 So I staid, upon thorns. And father, uneasy at my stop, came soon afterwards.
1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon v. 137 From six in the morning till about eight in the evening they held their way, with but three stops of about half an hour each.
1895 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 407 The train was a good deal behind time, and therefore the stop was curtailed as much as possible.
c. A place at which a halt is made; a stopping-place (for coaches, etc.).
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society > travel > [noun] > travelling about > touring > at specific places (coaches, etc.)
station1722
waypoint1860
stop1889
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Jan. 4/2 The next stage was to Cuckfield, to which stop the team consisted of four geldings.
1913 Daily Graphic 26 Mar. 7/4 There should be separate and fixed stops for 'buses and trams.
5. A block or obstruction of traffic caused by the overcrowding of vehicles.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic jam
stop1625
stoppage1727
lock1834
block1861
pinch point1868
tie-up1889
traffic jam1891
traffic snarl1899
traffic snarl1933
traffic snarl-up1947
thrombosis1959
snarl-up1960
back-up1962
tailback1975
gridlock1980
1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes §86 in Wks. (1778) I. 539 A citizen of London passing the streets very hastily, came at last where some stop was made by carts;..where being in some passion that he could not suddenly pass [etc.].
1683 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 249 The justices of peace..have..made an order for the clearing the narrow streets of hackny coaches, to prevent any stops that may happen thereby.
1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier iii. 27 As soon as ever the stop of Coaches is over, my Lady will drive like mad.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 515. ⁋1 To St. Paul's Church-yard, where there was a Stop of Coaches attending Company coming out of the Cathedral.
1739 Joe Miller's Jests No. 205 A Fellow once standing in the Pillory at Temple-Bar, it occasioned a Stop, so that a Carman with a load of Cheeses had much ado to pass.
6. † c. Hesitation, holding back; a pause for consideration before acting. Obsolete.† d. at a stop: at a standstill; at a nonplus.† e. The ‘end’ or purpose of an action. Obsolete.
a. A cessation, coming to a pause or end (of any activity, process, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun]
lissc1000
ceasec1330
stintc1330
stinting1338
ceasinga1340
discontinuancea1398
cessationa1400
leaving-off?a1425
surceasingc1435
disusage1475
stop1483
staying1546
discontinuation1572
discontinuing1582
surcease1590
stintance1605
cessure1607
desisting1607
avocationa1617
desistance1632
sistencea1639
surceasementa1641
supersession1648
dispractice1673
breaking-off1683
estoppage1701
cess1703
cesser1809
shutdown1857
stoppage1865
shut-off1889
sign-off1919
1483–4 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 146 Yff they schuld be stoppyd ther wold come noo moo merchauntes heder the whych schuld cause a grett stopp.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 82 And time that takes suruey of all the world Must haue a stop . View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 19 At which I ceas't, and listen'd them a while Till an unusuall stop of sudden silence Gave respit [etc.].
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vii. 129 Here it intimates a stop of the Mind, in the course it was going, before it came to the end of it.
1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music xxiv. 74 These Cadences introduce a Sort of a Stop or Rest, during a Piece.
1889 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 256 The band came to a stop.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 916 In tobacco intermittence the patient is always conscious of the stop and roll forward [of the heart].
b. A pause or breaking-off made by one speaking.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > pause or breaking off
stop1561
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. Z.iiii Here M. Bernarde makinge a litle stopp.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 4 Yorke Where did I leaue? Du. At that sad stop my Lord, Where [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 125 And for I know, thou art full of loue and honesty, And weighest thy words, before thou giue em breath, Therefore these stops of thine affright me the more.
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xvi. 137 The first words..which he uttered, when the other made a little stop, was this vehement exclamation.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xli. 412 The smiling and unconscious look of Florence brings him to a dead stop.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. vii. 185 Her voice sounded to him like that of a broken-throated lamb, so painful and weak it was, with the plaintive stop in the utterance.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > a pause or hesitation before acting
stop1535
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xliv. B Let him tell you forth planely thinges, that are past and forto come: yee and that without eny feare or stoppe.
1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete sig. E v And almost as many yeres haue we..buylded our owne houses goodly without any stoppe or feare.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. P.iiv Nor to geue himselfe so for a prey to friend..that without stoppe a manne shoulde make him partaker of all his thoughtes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > not moving [phrase] > at a standstill
at a stopa1626
at a stance?1678
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > confused, at a loss [phrase]
at one's wit's end (occasionally ends)1377
seek1390
will of wane (also wone)a1400
will of redea1425
on wild1477
to be at a muse1548
at a loss1592
at a stopa1626
in a fog?c1640
in a wood1659
at a wit-standa1670
at sea1768
at fault1833
far to find, seek1879
a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Certaine Misc. Wks. (1629) 98 At which sudden Question, Martius was a little at a stop.
1685 Lady Russell in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 342 Lord Dorset's match seems to be at a stop.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 111 As Navigation was at a Stop.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object
willeOE
errand?c1225
purposec1300
endc1305
emprisec1330
intentc1340
use1340
conclusionc1374
studya1382
pointc1385
causec1386
gamea1393
term?c1400
businessc1405
finec1405
intentionc1410
object?a1425
obtent?a1475
drift1526
intend1526
respect1528
flight1530
finality?1541
stop1551
scope1559
butt?1571
bent1579
aiming point1587
pursuitc1592
aim1595
devotion1597
meaning1605
maina1610
attempt1610
design1615
purport1616
terminusa1617
intendment1635
pretence1649
ettle1790
big (also great) idea1846
objective1878
objective1882
the name of the game1910
the object of the exercise1958
thrust1968
1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. Epist. to King Epist. to King, All do agre, that felicitie is and ought to be the stop and end of all their doynges.
II. Something that stops, arrests, or blocks.
7. † b. Something that finishes or brings to an end.
a. Something that arrests or hinders motion or activity; an impediment, obstacle. ? Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which
lockeOE
floodgatec1230
stopc1508
staya1533
snub1581
prevention1584
embarment1606
allay1607
spar1614
counterchecka1616
gag1618
preventivea1639
check1661
preventative1691
embargo1692
closed door1934
policeman1951
block-
c1508 T. Wolsey in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 446 That ther shuld be in hym no stop [nor] let but perfygt indever that suche a amyte and confederacon s[hould be made] suerly betwyx them.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. iii. 160 Quhat meyn thai be this myddill mantill wall? This litill stop of dykis and fouseys all?
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. ii. 14 He..whych..hath broken doune the Wall in the myddes, that was a stoppe bitwene vs.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxv For the which cause he conceiued so great an hatred..against the Duke of Orleaunce (as the onely stop and let of his..renoume).
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 70 These be the stopps that hinder studie quit. View more context for this quotation
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 104 in Poems He curst the stops of form and state, which lay In this last stage like Scandals in his way.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 131 A stiff, hard, and hollow Cane, or Reed, without any kind of knot, or stop, from its bottom.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 31 The Dregs or Fæces [will] descend, and surmount all those Stops, Letts, and Impediments, that arise from the Plicæ or Wrinkles of the Intestines.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which
stancha1400
supersedeas1555
stop-gamble1579
stopa1586
supra sedeas1615
stop-game1659
to put a stopper on1828
off-switch1897
shut-off1951
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > a limit, end, or term
endc1000
pointc1330
terma1398
datec1400
limec1420
period1554
full stopa1586
stopa1586
coda1836
mop1945
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Ll6 Blessed be thou O night,..thou arte the stop of strife and the necessarie truce of aproching battels.
8.
a. A weir or dam across a river; a sluice or floodgate. ? Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water
stopping1575
pen1585
stop1585
water stop1585
stank1604
headinga1641
stanch1767
stop-back1790
penhead1805
keep1847
stanking1883
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 391/2 Septum,..a sluce: a floudgate, or water stop.
1641 J. Taylor Last Voy. sig. A4v Every Stoppe and Weare.
1681 T. Delaune Pres. State London 199 They took care to clear..the River Westward of about 79 Stops or Hatches, consisting of divers great Stakes and Piles, erected by Fishermen for their private lucre.
1793 Rep. Comm. Ho. Comm. (1803) XIV. 233 Between Day's and Sutton Locks there requires a stop or pound lock at or near Clifton Ferry.
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 283 Two stops or cloughs, one to each lock, which serve as lock-gates to the south end.
b. A blind alley in a maze.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground > in a maze
stop1666
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxvi. 58 Like a Labyrinth divided into several stops, turnings or windings, where at each division we must halt, [etc.].
1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica II. 219 Six different entrances, whereof there is but one that leads to the centre, and that is attended with some difficulties and a great many stops.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 181/1 The key to reach this resting place is to keep the right hand continuously in contact with the hedge from first to last, going round all the stops.
9. † c. Watchmaking. ? A mark on the dial of a stop-watch indicating a fraction of a second. Obsolete.
a. A piece of mechanism (e.g. a pin, bolt, shoulder, a strip or block of wood) which checks the motion or thrust of anything, keeps a part fixed in its place, determines the position to which a part shall be brought, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > other specific mechanisms
stop?1523
clockwork1652
sector1715
rackwork1755
scapement1789
scape1798
safety catch1827
controller1836
dog1840
Geneva stop1841
Maltese cross1852
throw-off1852
gearhead1869
tripper1870
Scotch yoke1880
Geneva movement1881
belt-tightener1882
watch1882
selector1890
Geneva wheel1891
throw-out1894
Geneva motion1897
horse-geara1899
Geneva mechanism1903
safety catch1904
Geneva drive1913
Geneva1919
Possum1961
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlvi Thou must haue made redy a punche of harde wode with a stoppe, and a tenant on the one syde.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stoppe whych reteygneth a wheale of hys cowrse, sufflamen.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 314 On the hither end of this square pin is made a sholder or stop.
1784 Bramah in Repertory of Arts (1796) V. 222 The said key, by having a stop, or some mark whereby to limit or determine the length of its push against the said levers, sliders, &c. puts a period to each of their motions.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 203 The plank or piece of wood, while being planed, is kept firmly down upon the bench by means of a stop or fastening at the end.
1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iv. i. 252 [He] touched the stop of the musical box so that it might cease playing when it came to the end of the air.
1870 J. Tyndall Heat (ed. 4) i. §6. 5 The current generated would dash the needle violently against its stops and probably derange its magnetism.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 342/1 (Driving) Stops, hooks upon the shafts which prevent the harness from slipping forward.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 229 Stops should be fixed in the sash-grooves, so that neither sash can be opened more than six inches.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 24 A bench iron or ‘stop’ should be screwed down on forward end of bench for holding work during planing.
b. Joinery. Each of the pieces of wood nailed on the frame of a door to form a rebate against which the door shuts.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door-post > shutting joint
shutting joint1823
stop1833
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §239 Stops (a term variously applied, but chiefly to slips nailed on for doors or shutters to shut against).
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §836 The door must then be removed, and stops..nailed to the sides of the jambs and the under surface of the lintel.
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1701 London Gaz. No. 3692/4 Lost.., a Watch with a double Case.., with Minutes, Seconds, and Stops.
d. Clockwork. A contrivance to prevent overwinding.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1675 J. Smith Horol. Dialogues 38 You must first wind it [a watch] up right..not too hastily, least you force the stop, and break the string.
1873 H. L. Nelthropp Treat. Watch-work 145 Foreign watches are usually made without the fusee..; when such is the case, a Geneva stop is used, which consists of a small wheel placed on the barrel-arbor, having but one tooth.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2408/2 It is better to so organize the stop that the strongest and weakest powers of the spring be rejected.
e. Bookbinding. (See quot. 1880.)
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
plough1580
fillet1641
roll1656
paper-folder1781
stamp1811
backing-hammer1818
bookstamp1819
lettering tool1833
book cutter1850
roller1852
hand letter1862
pallet1875
wagon1875
stop1880
jigger1883
gouge1885
guinea-edge1890
marbler1890
panel stamp1893
saddle stitcher1944
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding 177 Stops, small circular tools, adapted to ‘stop’ a fillet when it intersects at right angles; used to save the time ‘mitreing’ would occupy.
f. Lace-making. A junction of the different sets of warp-threads, taken as a basis for measurement in Jacquard weaving.
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1891 Cent. Dict.
10. Nautical.
a. A piece of small line used to fasten or secure anything.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for
stopper1636
lanyard1669
lasher1669
racking1704
selvage1711
selvagee1750
gilguy1833
tier1844
stop1846
selvage-stropc1860
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 323 Stop, a temporary fastening for a rope; generally of rope-yarn... A Stop, also means a projection for any thing to rest or bear upon.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vii. 216 When the boat is beached, the stops which hang the gangboards alongside are to be let go.
1887 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 2/5 The jib..had been sent up in stops.
b. A projection at the upper part of a mast.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > upper part of mast > projection at
stop1846
1846 [see sense 10a].
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stop, a small projection on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast, at the upper parts of the hounds.
c. Shipbuilding. (See quot. 1891.)
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1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Single stop, the scoring down of the carlines between the beams, by which means a carline is prevented from sinking any lower than its intended position. The double stop is generally used for deeper carlines than the single stop.
11. Architecture. An ornamental termination to a chamfer.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments
pommela1300
crest1430
finial1448
balloon1592
brattishingc1593
knob1610
cartouche1611
ogive1611
fret1626
galace1663
acroterion1664
paternoster1728
semi-urn1742
patera1776
purfling1780
sailing course1807
vesica piscis (also piscium)1809
antefix1819
vesica1820
garland1823
stop1825
Aaron's rod1830
headwork1831
Vitruvian scroll1837
hip knob1838
stelea1840
ball-flower1840
notch-head1843
brandishing1846
buckle1848
cat's-head1848
bucrane1854
cresting1869
semi-ball1875
canephorus1880
crest-board1881
wave pattern1905
husk1934
foliate head1939
green man1939
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 604 In grooving, the stops are paid over and above.
1845 Builder 15 Nov. 551/1 Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4,..shew Norman stops to chamfers, in Sherburn church, Yorkshire.
12. Optics. A perforated plate or diaphragm used to cut off marginal rays of light round a lens. Cf. diaphragm n. 4a. Also in Photography, a diaphragm or (originally) a perforated plate for reducing the effective diameter of the lens of a camera or enlarger (now usually built into the apparatus); hence used as a unit of change of relative aperture (or exposure or film speed), a reduction of one stop being equivalent to a halving of any of these.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > stop
stop1831
stop-mount1879
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > lens > diaphragms
stop1831
iris-diaphragm1867
iris1911
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xliii. 361 The stop or diaphragm must be placed half way between the two lenses.
1858 T. Sutton & J. Worden Dict. Photogr. 255 The principle of this form of lens will be best understood by discussing, in the first place, the case of a single plano~convex lens, with a stop in front.
1883 Photogr. Simplified 23 Always focus with the largest stop, so as to get as much light as possible, and afterwards insert a stop which gives the necessary sharpness.
1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 28 The eye-piece must of course be provided with a stop.
1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Aug. (1972) II. 282 A slow plate and a suitably small stop will prolong the exposure sufficiently to make it manageable by hand with a cap.
1955 Morgan & Lester Leica Man. (ed. 13) ii. 75 With lenses of short focal length, the addition of 62·5mm extension results in the true aperture being nearly 2 stops smaller than the marked f-numbers.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 36 Lens diaphragms are graduated in units called stops or f-numbers.
1977 H. Innes Big Footprints ii. iii. 179 The light's going to be tricky... It'll soon be dusk. If I were you I'd open up a stop.
1979 Amateur Photographer 10 Jan. 90/1 The extra two stops of film speed obtained by raising 400ASA to 1600 are invaluable under such conditions.
13. Something that stops an aperture; a plug.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture
stanch1557
stop-hole1562
stopple1562
stopping1585
stopper1591
stop1771
stopgap1872
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 317 The stop of cotton must now be taken out of the throat.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. x. §2293 Patent india-rubber stops to make air-tight joints.
III. Music.
14.
a. In an organ, a graduated set of pipes producing tones of the same quality. ? Originally applied to the slider which controls such a set.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop
stopc1500
register1585
organ stop1644
c1500 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1809) IV. 407 The swete Organe Pipis comfortith a stedfast mynde, Wronge handlynge of the stoppis may cause yem sipher fro ye kynde.
1513 in C. Kerry Hist. St. Lawrence's, Reading (1883) 60 It. payd for ij lokks to the same organs, one for the stopps and the other for the keyes, xj d.
1541 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 8 For mendynge one of the stopes of the great organs..viij d.
1542 in Archæol. Jrnl. 18 139 Item oone peir of doble Regalles with two stoppes of pipes coverid with purple vellat.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 596 All Organs of sweet stop . View more context for this quotation
1782 W. Hooper Rational Recreations (ed. 2) II. 237 The stops of an organ have various denominations, according to the sounds they are to produce; some of which are diapason, principal, fifteen, twelfth, [etc.].
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 26 The organ breathes its distant thunder-notes,..And now the tubes a soften'd stop controls.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. i. 9 Accompanying flourishes by Mr. Marshall on the trumpet stop.
b. The handle or knob by which a set of organ pipes is turned on or off; a stop-knob, draw-stop.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop-knob
stop1585
stop-handle1858
piston1873
stop-knob1887
piston knob1890
thumb-piston1904
speaking stop1938
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 354/2 Epistomium,..the stop in a paire of organs, whereby the sound is made hie or lowe.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 35 On both sides of the manual..there is a number of handles or buttons..called stops.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 718/2 Stops. This word is used in two senses—for the handles or draw-stops which are placed near the organ-player, and by which he can shut off or draw on the various registers; and for the registers themselves.
c. In the harpsichord, a handle controlling a lever by which the position of a jack could be varied so as to modify the tone produced.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > harpsichord > stop
stop1730
buff-stopa1819
unison stop1830
1730 Brit. Patent 521 (1857) It will keep much longer in tune than any harpsichords that have octave stops.
1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 689/2 He [Hans Ruckers] contrived, after the example of the organ, a second keyboard, and stops to be moved by the hand, for the control of the registers or slides of jacks acting upon the strings.
15. † c. to keep stop, ? to keep in tune or correct pitch. Obsolete.
a. The closing of a finger-hole or ventage in the tube of a wind instrument so as to alter the pitch; a metal key used for this purpose. Also, the hole or aperture thus closed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > finger-hole
stopc1500
ventage1604
finger hole1785
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > key
stopc1500
key1754
octave key1866
speaker-key1890
touch key1891
c1500 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1809) IV. 407 The Recorder of his kynde the meane doth desyre, Manyfolde fyngerynge and stoppes bringith hy from his tunes clere, Who so lyst to handill an instrument so goode, Must se in his many fyngerynge yt he kepe tyme, stop and moode.
1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 85v God forbidde, quoth the piper, that your maiestie should be so miserable, as to knowe these fantasticall toyes any better, their effeminate stops are not worth a straw.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 Induct. 17 Rumour is a pipe..of so easie, and so plaine a stop, That..The still discordant wau'ring multitude, Can play vpon it. View more context for this quotation
1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 34 Teaching euery stop and kaye, To those vpon the Pipe that playe.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 25 in Justa Edouardo King He touch'd the tender stops of various quills.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 322 The same Variety of Strings may be observ'd on their Harps, and of Stops on their Tibiæ.
1846 W. S. Landor Theron & Zoe in Hellenics 61 The sobs that choakt my flute, the humidity..that gargled on the stops.
1913 H. H. Johnston Pioneers Australasia vi. 205 The flutes upon which the people [of Tahiti] played had only two stops.
b. The act of pressing with the finger on a string of the violin, lute, etc., so as to raise the pitch of its tone. Also, the part of the string where pressure is made in order to produce a required note; sometimes mechanically marked, as by the frets of a lute or guitar. Cf. full stop n. 3.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > stopping strings
stop1530
stopping1677
barre1900
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > lute- or viol-type parts > [noun] > fret
magade?a1475
freta1527
stop1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 276/2 Stoppe of a lute.
1574 F. Kinwelmersh tr. A. Le Roy Briefe Instr. Musicke Lute f. 6 There bee ordinarily eight stops in nomber: whereof euery one containeth but halfe a tune or note.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 55 His iesting spirit, which is now crept into a lute-string, and now gouernd by stops . View more context for this quotation
1610 J. B. Besardo Oberv. Lvte-playing in R. Dowland Var. Lvte-lessons sig. Cv (margin) To know how to strike single strings, being found amongst full stops.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §105 If a Man would endeuour to raise or fall his Voice, still by Halfe-Notes, like the Stops of a Lute.
1659 C. Simpson Division-violist i. 6 Where the Stopps are Wide (as amongst the Fretts,) the Fourth or Little Finger, is of more use, then Lower down, where the Stopps are more Contract.
1678 T. D'Urfey Trick for Trick iv. i. 40 Hee'l Fiddle and make a noise, but the Devil a stop he knowes, or when he fiddles in Tune.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 409/2 Stop (1) the pressure by the fingers of the strings upon the fingerboard of a stringed instrument. (2) A fret upon a guitar or similar instrument.
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c1500 [see sense 14a].
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 354/1 Modos concidere & frangere,..to breake time: not to keepe stop, or to fall from the higher tunes to the lower.
16. figurative or transferred. Now chiefly with reference to the organ; in the earlier quots. apparently sometimes vaguely used for ‘note’, ‘key’, ‘tune’. In modern use frequently in phrase to pull out all the stops, to make every possible effort.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > note or tone
notec1330
tunea1387
tonec1400
report1502
stop1576
sound1654
klang1890
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > do one's utmost
to do (also lay) one's mightc1175
to do, make one's wisec1290
to do (also make) one's powerc1390
to hold (also keep) foot withc1438
to do one's force?c1450
to do or die1487
to do one's endeavour(sc1500
to do the best of one's power1523
to do (also try) one's best1585
to do one's possible1792
to pull out all the stops1927
to bust (also break) one's balls1968
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. D.jv But sweeter soundes, of concorde, peace, and loue, Are out of tune, and iarre in euery stoppe.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C4v Haue euery sillable a musick stop, That when I pause the mellody may moue.
1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 22 A skilful Ear, in Numbers shou'd preside, And all Disputes without Appeal decide. This ancient Rome, and Elder Athens found, Before mistaken stops debauch'd the sound.
1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 10 Sweet as stops Of planetary music heard in trance.
1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 124 Fortune..Play'd a flourish ere she changed her awful stop for evermore.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Pref. p. xiv Knowing how unpopular a task one is undertaking when one tries to pull out a few more stops in that..somewhat narrow-toned organ, the modern Englishman.
1927 Oxf. Mag. 20 Oct. 3/2 He may be said to have ‘pulled out all his stops’. He gave the University a speech which for ease, eloquence and felicity could not readily be surpassed or indeed equalled.
1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion of Elizabethan Eng. 123 As his rebellion progressed Tyrone had to pull out the Catholic stop.
1957 Economist 5 Oct. 20/2 A Russian admiral on a good will naval visit to the Syrian port of Lattakia was serenading nationalism with all the right stops out.
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 20 Dec. (1970) 341 This evening we gave a State Dinner... We opened up all the stops and the Christmas carols rang forth.
1974 A. Price Other Paths to Glory i. vi. 77 ‘But they have no idea who did it?’ ‘Not from what I heard... I know they're pulling out all the stops, though.’
1978 P. McCutchan Blackmail North ii. 20 We'll be doing our best, all stops out.
IV. Grammar.
17.
a. A mark or point of punctuation.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > point or stop
distinction1552
stay1596
stop1598
interpunction1617
punctc1620
punctum1652
interpoint1684
interstinctive point1696
dot1699
interpunctuation1717
guard-stops1866
distinctive1874
interpunct1898
punctus elevatus1951
punctus versus1951
punctus1954
1598 [see sense 21a].
1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. E5 Thy folly was in fault, rashly to draw Thy articles without aduise at law. There wanted stops, pricks, letters, here and there.
a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women iii. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 44 I can write fast and fair Most true Orthography, and observe my stops.
1740 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 14 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) II. 426 I hope, too, that he makes you read aloud, distinctly, and observe the stops.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 159 The corrector of the press scarcely had occasion to alter a word, a letter, or a stop.
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 38 Who..talked in such a hurry And with such wild contempt for stops and Lindley Murray.
1906 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler King's Eng. iv. 225 It is a sound principle that as few stops should be used as will do the work.
b. mind your stops: literal said to a child reading aloud; in quot. 1830 transferred. colloquial.
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1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xx. 309 Mind your stops, my Jack of the Bone-house, or I shall shy a biscuit at your head.
c. Prosody. In Guest's nomenclature, a break (in verse as spoken or read aloud) which is required by the sense: distinguished from pause, which denotes a break required by the metre.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > other breaks in verse
stop1838
diaeresis1844
end-stopping1881
1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. i. vii. 148, 154, 158.
1852 R. W. Evans Treat. Versif. 59 Whenever he [sc. Virgil] adds a stop to the pause, he is wont to break its force by putting a monosyllable after it.
d. Cryptography. A character representing a punctuation mark.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > in cryptography: character showing punctuation
stop1915
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps iii. 72 It was a numerical cypher, and by an elaborate system of experiments I had pretty well discovered what were the nulls and stops.
1939 F. Pratt Secret & Urgent 18 Stops are punctuation marks, usually sentence endings, for which special characters are provided, sometimes placed after each word.
e. Short for full stop n. 1: (a) as used, spelt out, in a telegram; (b) = period n. 11b.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > point or stop > full stop
pointc1395
period1582
full stop1643
stop1936
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > stroke or stop
stroke1884
stop1936
1936 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Provincial Lady in Amer. 116 Literary luncheon really important function will receive wide press publicity letter follows Stop Very sincerely Katherine Ellen Blatt.
1964 F. Chichester Lonely Sea & Sky xxxii. 333 Another exciting telegram..which read, ‘Delighted to see that you have achieved your ambition to beat your own record Stop.’
1977 Times 7 Oct. 15/5 Sir, Almost all who write you on this subject assume that high productivity is desirable, stop.
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18. See full stop n. 1b, 2.
19. Phonetics.
a. The complete closure of the orinasal passages in articulating a mute consonant.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > stop > complete closure
check1669
stop1669
stopping1873–4
mute-closure1875
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 11 The Letters, as they have their natural Production by the several checks or stops, or (as they are usually called) Articulations of the Breath or Voice in their passage from the Larynx through the Mouth or Nose, made by the instruments of Speech.
b. A consonantal sound in the formation of which the passage of the breath is completely obstructed; a stopped consonant, a mute.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > stop
mute1530
check1669
lene1841
stop1873
stop consonant1975
1873–4 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 106 A peculiar feature of Danish is its aspiration of the voiceless stops at the beginning of a syllable.
V. Miscellaneous specific and technical senses (some of mixed or uncertain affinity).† 22. Hunting. ? A check given to the hounds. to hunt upon the stop, ? to hunt with frequent pauses, as in hunting with stop-hounds; in quot. 1615 figurative.† 29. Cricket. A fielder standing three or four yards behind the wicket, a little on the off side. Obsolete. Cf. backstop n. b, long-stop n. 1.
20. Fencing. (See quot. 1891.) Cf. stop-thrust n. at Compounds, and French coup d'arrêt.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
buttc1330
overheadc1400
stopc1450
quarter-strokea1456
rabbeta1500
rakea1500
traverse1547
flourish1552
quarter-blow1555
veny1578
alarm1579
venue1591
cut1593
time1594
caricado1595
fincture1595
imbroccata1595
mandritta1595
punta riversa1595
remove1595
stramazon1595
traversa1595
imbrocado1597
passado1597
counter-time1598
foinery1598
canvasado1601
montant1601
punto1601
stock1602
embrocadoc1604
pass1604
stuck1604
stramazo1606
home thrust1622
longee1625
falsify?1635
false1637
traversion1637
canvassa1641
parade1652
flanconade1664
parry1673
fore-stroke1674
allonge1675
contretemps1684
counter1684
disengaging1684
feint1684
passing1687
under-counter1687
stringere1688
stringering1688
tempo1688
volte1688
overlapping1692
repost1692
volt-coupe1692
volting1692
disarm?1700
stamp1705
passade1706
riposte1707
swoop1711
retreat1734
lunge1748
beat1753
disengage1771
disengagement1771
opposition1771
time thrust1771
timing1771
whip1771
shifting1793
one-two1809
one-two-three1809
salute1809
estramazone1820
remise1823
engage1833
engaging1833
risposta1838
lunging1847
moulinet1861
reprise1861
stop-thrust1861
engagement1881
coupé1889
scrape1889
time attack1889
traverse1892
cut-over1897
tac-au-tac riposte1907
flèche1928
replacement1933
punta dritta1961
c1450 Fencing with Two-handed Sword in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 308 An in stop, and an owte stop, and an hawke quartere.
c1450 Fencing with Two-handed Sword in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 308 Two quarters and a rownde a stop thou hym bede.
c1450 Fencing with Two-handed Sword in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 309 Thy stoppis, thy foynys, lete hem fast rowte.
1771 A. Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 82 On Guard in Quarte-over-the-arm. Make a full thrust at me in Quarte [etc.]..; thus you stop me. Note, that you must conserve a little of your whole longe, that your stop may be planted with more force.
1891 Cent. Dict. Stop..17. In fencing, the action whereby a fencer, instead of parrying a blow and then thrusting, allows a careless opponent to run on his sword-point. He may hasten the stop by extending the sword-arm.
21. † a. In the manège: A sudden check in a horse's career. Obsolete.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > means of stopping or checking a horse > a sudden check (in the manège)
stop?1575
?1575 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding ii. i. D vj Secondly, you must teach him to be light at stoppe.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Parare,..the stop in the action of horsemanship.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 120 He hath rid his Prologue, like a rough Colte: hee knowes not the stoppe . View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3 What rounds, what bounds, what course what stop he Makes.
b. In driving: (see quot. 18971).
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1897 Outing 30 255 Whenever a sharp turn is being made always be prepared to put on the ‘stop’.
1897 Outing 30 255 Lift your left hand, drop your right over all reins and give the ‘stop’ firmly.
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1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting B iv b At euery ouer putting off the hounds, or small stop, euery huntsman that hath a horne ought to begin his rechate.
1615 S. Ward Coal from Altar 78 If any step a little forward, do not the rest hunt vpon the stop?
23.
a. Pugilism. A guard or attack that prevents a blow from getting home.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > actions or positions
first bloodc1540
guard1601
feint1684
in holds1713
shifting1793
rally1805
muzzler1811
one-two1811
stop1812
southpaw1813
fibbing1814
leveller1814
mouther1814
ribber1814
stomacher1814
teller1814
in-fighting1816
muzzling1819
weaving1821
out-fighting1831
arm guard1832
countering1858
counter1861
clinching1863
prop1869
clinch1875
right and left1887
hook-hit1890
hook1898
cross1906
lead1906
jolt1908
swing1910
body shot1918
head shot1927
bolo punch1950
snap-back1950
counterpunch1957
counterpunching1957
Ali shuffle1966
rope-a-dope1975
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 66 Maltby, however, has some slight notion of the stop.
1824 J. Badcock Boxiana IV. 255 Abbot showed that he was not destitute of science, and made some good stops.
1861 C. J. Lever One of Them ix The stranger not only ‘stopped’ every blow of the other, but followed each ‘stop’ by a well-sent-in one of his own.
b. Wrestling. A counter to any particular fall or hold.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
swengOE
turn?c1225
castc1400
trip1412
fall?a1425
foil1553
collar1581
lock1598
faulx1602
fore-hip1602
forward1602
inturn1602
mare1602
hug1617
disembracement1663
buttock1688
throw1698
back-lock1713
cross-buttock1713
flying horse1713
in holds1713
buttocker1823
chip1823
dogfall1823
cross-buttocker1827
hitch1834
bear hug1837
backfall1838
stop1840
armlock1841
side hug1842
click1846
catch-hold1849
back-breaker1867
back-click1867
snap1868
hank1870
nelson1873
headlock1876
chokehold1886
stranglehold1886
hip lock1888
heave1889
strangle1890
pinfall1894
strangler's grip1895
underhold1895
hammer-lock1897
scissor hold1897
body slam1899
scissors hold1899
armbar1901
body scissors1903
scissors grip1904
waist-hold1904
neck hold1905
scissors1909
hipe1914
oshi1940
oshi-dashi1940
oshi-taoshi1940
pindown1948
lift1958
whip1958
Boston crab1961
grapevine1968
powerbomb1990
1840 D. Walker Defensive Exercises 12 Particular falls and their stops.
24. A hole in the ground in which the doe-rabbit secures her litter. Cf. stab n.3 and stock n.1 46.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren
clapperc1400
cunnigar1424
warrena1425
coneygarth1429
coney-close?1472
coney hole?c1475
berry1486
coney holda1500
coney-clapper1530
coney yard1532
coneyry1570
coney burrow1575
coney gratec1580
coney-gat1591
coney green1599
coney warren1616
coney ground1617
rabbit hole1667
stop1669
rabbit burrow1723
stock1736
rabbit warren1766
stab1838
warrener1864
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 174 On the other side..let the places be left for the Does to make their stops in.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 Oct. 284 As pleased as..when I had just found a rabbit's stop, or a black-bird's nest.
1908 Nation 6 June 340/2 An occasional rabbit stop opened from above and emptied of its young.
25. Fox-hunting. A particular area in which a man is deputed to stop the earths.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > area where earths stopped
stop1826
1826 J. Cook Fox-hunting 65 If, after this notice, you run to ground in any particular man's stop, you had better discharge him [the earth-stopper] immediately.
26. Shooting. A person posted in a particular place in order to keep the game within range after it has been started.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > assistant
loader1869
stop1897
stop-boy1902
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 442/2 [article Gamekeepers] The stops must be in their places long before the actual beating begins.
1905 A. I. R. Glasfurd Rifle in Indian Jungle 332 The tiger has not been in any way located by any ‘stops’ which the shikári may have posted.
27.
a. The indentation in the face of a dog between the forehead and the nose.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > parts of > (parts of) head, neck and face
race?1523
worm1530
rake1685
apple head1830
hackles1839
stop1867
butterfly nose1878
lay-back1894
1867 ‘Stonehenge’ Dogs Brit. Islands 70 The ‘stop’ (which is an indentation between the eyes) should extend up the face [of the bulldog] a considerable length.
1884 Live Stock Jrnl. 5 Sept. 227/2 Bull-dogs:..a nice brindle, hardly enough chop, but good stop and wrinkle.
b. In a cavy (see quot. 1913).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Caviidae (cavy) > genus Cavia (guinea-pig) > marking on
stop1902
1902 Fur & Feather 19 Sept. 233/1 Capital stops, nice cheeks, good top collar.
1902 Fur & Feather 19 Sept. 233/1 Only 1 stop, this about its only fault.
1913 G. Gardner Cumberland's Cavies (ed. 2) 75 [In Dutch-marked cavies] The ‘stops’, or white markings, to the hind feet, should be about an inch long.
28.
a. Cards. In Pope Joan and similar games, a card which stops the run of a sequence. Hence plural, the game of Newmarket.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game
sequent1620
lead1742
maker1753
stop1808
strong card1839
king card1850
brisque1870
honour card1876
penultimate1876
guard1885
thirteener1891
wild card1940
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > Newmarket, etc.
Pope Joan1732
stop1886
Newmarket1887
Michigan1923
1808 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 161 (Pope Joan) One [card is] turned up for trump, and about six or eight left in the stock to form stops:..the four kings and the seven of diamonds are always fixed stops.
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 81 (Commit.) A spare hand is dealt in the middle of the table, for the purpose of making stops in the playing, which is by sequences.
1886 W. B. Dick Mod. Pocket Hoyle (ed. 11) 343 Newmarket, or Stops. This game is played in a similar manner to the game of ‘Boodle’.
1895 G. J. Manson Sporting Dict. Stop, a card in Newmarket which balks or stops the further play in a sequence.
1897 R. F. Foster Compl. Hoyle 466 Newmarket, or Stops.
b. Bridge. A card of such value that it can reasonably be counted on, in conjunction with other cards in the same suit, to take a trick in that suit. Usually to have (also hold) a stop in (hearts, diamonds, etc.). Cf. stopped adj. 2d, stopper n. 7e.
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1920 E. V. Shepard Correct Auction 100 If that suit has already been bid by an opponent you can bid 2–No Trumps if you have safe stops in the suit with quick side tricks.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position
middle wicket1772
long-stop1773
second stop1773
stop1773
long fieldsman1790
long field?1801
third man1801
outscout1805
leg1816
point1816
slip1816
backstop1819
long fielder1835
long leg1835
long field off1837
short leg1843
square leg1849
cover-point1850
long-stopper1851
middle-off1851
cover-slip1854
long off1854
left fielder1860
short square1860
mid-off1865
extra cover (point)1867
deep-fielder1870
mid-on1870
cover1897
leg trap1897
infield1898
deep field1900
slipper1903
slip fieldsman1906
midwicket1909
infieldsman1910
slip-catcher1920
infielder1927
leg slip1956
1773 Kentish Gaz. 5 June England..Parmore (stop)... Hampshire..Lear (stop).
1851 W. Clarke Pract. Hints Cricket in W. Bolland Cricket Notes 129 In laying out your field, you should be careful in selecting good men for your principal places, such as wicket keeper, point, stop, short slip.
Compounds
stop band n. Electronics a band of frequencies which are highly attenuated by a filter.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > frequency > band of frequencies or wavelengths > of specific kind
long wave1913
stop band1922
broadband1956
narrowband1999
1922 G. A. Campbell in Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. Nov. 15 The pass band and stop band characteristics of wave~filters are concretely illustrated..by the curves of Figs. 8–13.
1959 Kuh & Pederson Princ. Circuit Synthesis xiii. 200 The frequency where the pass- and stopbands coalesce is called the cutoff frequency.
1978 Internat. Jrnl. Electronics 45 247 Filters are designed with various frequency characteristics for the pass band and the stop band and also with predefined zeros in the stop band.
stop bath n. Photography a bath for arresting the process of the preceding bath, esp. development, by neutralizing any of its chemical that may still be present.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > others
accelerator1843
nitroglucose1852
restrainer1865
medium1867
intensifier1883
stop bath1898
opaque1908
bleacher1911
coupler1938
wash1953
1898 H. Maclean Pop. Photogr. Printing Processes iv. 42 To counteract some more or less over-toning..what is termed a ‘stop’ bath is used.
1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset v. 58 The required number of contacts are made on lith type plates, developed, passed into the stop~bath and etch-bleached in the usual manner.
1980 D. Francis Reflex xiii. 151 I set out the trays of developer and stop bath and fixer.
stop bead n. [bead n. 5b] (see quot. 1964).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > parts of sash windows
parting bead1820
stop bead1876
parting stripa1884
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 496/1 An inner or stop bead is mitred round on the inside to complete the groove or channel for the lower sash.
1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 155 Stop bead, a bead mitred round the inner edge of a sash window to prevent the inner sash from swinging into the room.
1976 R. Day All about House Repair & Maintenance 62 Broken sash cords are easily removed... First remove the stop bead on the inside.
stop-block n. †(a) a block of wood indicating the position of a fire-cock; (b) a buffer at the termination of a railway-line.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > sources of water > block indicating position of fire-cock
stop-block1707
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > buffer
buffer1835
stop-block1853
fender-stop1856
buffer-stop1878
stop-buffer1881
buffer-block1889
buffer-bank1900
bumping post1952
1707 Act 6 Anne c. 31 §1 The Top of such Stop-blocks to lie even with the Pavement of each Street or Place.
1853 Repts. Principal Accid. Railways 233 A short siding with strong stop blocks at the end.
stop-boy n. a boy employed to keep the game within range (see 26).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > assistant
loader1869
stop1897
stop-boy1902
1902 Land & Water 25 Oct. 616/3 Stop boys should not make such a noise or be placed in such a position as to frighten the birds into breaking at the wrong place.
stop-buffer n. = stop-block n. (b).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > buffer
buffer1835
stop-block1853
fender-stop1856
buffer-stop1878
stop-buffer1881
buffer-block1889
buffer-bank1900
bumping post1952
1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 69 I was once in a train which the driver could not stop, and we went right into the stop-buffers.
stop-butt n. a slope or bank constructed behind the targets at a rifle range to stop bullets.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > shooting-range > specific part
stop-butt1864
backstop1946
1864 A. Walker Rifle (ed. 2) 114 If at a smaller angle it would, instead of acting as a stop-butt [etc.].
1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 177 The long shed of the Village Rifle Club reeked with the oniony smell of smokeless powder, machine-oil, and creosote from the stop-butt.
1963 W. H. Fuller Small-bore Target Shooting i. 25 Stop butt or bullet catchers.
stop button n. a button or switch which is pressed or pulled to stop the action of a machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > buttons
tit1864
push-button?1874
press-buttonc1876
push1886
pressel1892
press-cock1932
stop button1940
touch key1957
1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) xiv. 209 When we'd got about half-way d-down she started screaming... I shoved down the stop button. So we stopped... Just below the first floor.
1977 J. Wainwright Day of Peppercorn Kill 120 He glanced at the tape-recorder, pressed the ‘stop’ button and said, ‘We need a new reel.’
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
stop-dice1540
bar1545
flat1545
gourd1545
barred dicec1555
bristle-dicec1555
fulhamc1555
graviersc1555
high manc1555
langretc1555
low manc1555
cheat1567
dice of vantage?1577
demy1591
forger1591
squarier1592
tallmen?1592
stop cater trey1605
demi-bar1606
downhill1664
high runner1670
low runner1670
doctor1688
tat1688
uphill1699
cut1711
loaded dice1771
dispatcher1798
dispatch1819
miss-out1928
1605 London Prodigall i. i Fullomes, stop cater traies, and other bones of function.
1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue iv. i. F 3 I haue learned but three sorts [of pronouns]; the Goade, the Fulham, and the Stop-kater-tre; which are all demonstratiues.
stop chords n. Jazz chords played on the first beat of every bar or every other bar, as the only accompaniment to a solo.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz
jazz1918
break1926
chorus1926
stop time1929
tag1929
lick1932
riff1933
ride1935
release1936
sock chorus1936
rideout1939
screamer1940
stop chords1941
chase1942
stop chorus1942
mop1945
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > series of chords
stop time1929
stop chords1941
1941 Musical Q. Jan. 52 The second chorus is played with great feeling by the clarinet to a background of ‘stop chords’, a very effective device of the New Orleans style.
1958 R. Harris in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz iii. 45 Dipper Mouth with a hot theme stated by the ensemble; a superb Dodds solo against stop chords; [etc.].
stop chorus n. Jazz a solo accompanied by stop chords.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz
jazz1918
break1926
chorus1926
stop time1929
tag1929
lick1932
riff1933
ride1935
release1936
sock chorus1936
rideout1939
screamer1940
stop chords1941
chase1942
stop chorus1942
mop1945
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §578/10 Stop chorus, a chorus in which the orchestra plays only one note in every one or two measures as a background for a tap dancer or other soloist.
1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues ii. 67 The singer ‘reading on down’ to each new chapter [in sermon-like recitations] against the stop chorus of the pianist or a full jazz band.
stop-cleat n. Nautical (see cleat n. 2).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > tiller > cleat to limit angle of tiller
stop-cleat1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 164 Stop-cleats are nailed to yard-arms, to prevent the slipping of the rigging and the gammoning, and to stop collars on masts.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xiii. 250 Upon the upper and lower stays Stop-cleats are riveted and serve to prevent the rudder from being put over past a certain angle.
stop-clock n. (cf. stop-watch n.).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1881 Times 15 Jan. 5/6 The time being taken by a stop-clock.
stop-cloth n. a cloth used in cleaning a chimney to prevent the soot from spreading into the room.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > cloth to prevent soot spreading into room
stop-clothc1742
c1742 in Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 526 [The coffin] is covered with a Chimney-sweeper's Stop-cloth.
stop-coin n. = stop-quoin n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > wedge to secure gun
quoin1627
quoiner1637
stop-quoin1859
stop-coinc1860
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 12 When do you use stop Coins? When fighting lee guns, or with distant charges.
stop consonant n. = sense 19b.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > stop
mute1530
check1669
lene1841
stop1873
stop consonant1975
1975 F. R. Palmer in W. F. Bolton Eng. Lang. ii. 44 The stop (or plosive) consonants..involve the pressurization of air pushed up from the lungs into the vocal tract.
1978 Maledicta 2 111 Rising tones in Thai do not co-occur in syllables ending in a stop consonant.
stop-cylinder n. a printing press in which the cylinder is stopped to permit the return of the reciprocating carriage.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > cylindrical
rolling press1625
stop-cylinder1874
multigraph1878
Miehle1887
Wharfe1888
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 671/2 The stop-cylinder press, designed for woodcut printing.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 5/2 The stop-cylinder..is a little inferior to the two-revolution cylinder in performance... In this machine the cylinder stops after every impression and allows the feeder to place properly the sheet to be printed.
1980 B. Crutchley To be Printer ii. 21 ‘And what do you know about printing?’ I was about to reply..: ‘Well, I can tell the difference between a two-rev and stop-cylinder,’ (those were basic types of printing machine).
stop-day n. a day on which colliers stop work.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night
holidaya1400
play-day1558
playing day1575
non Le1636
whole holiday1753
rest day1800
Sunday out1837
day off1853
evening out1870
stop-day1879
night off1885
night out1890
off1926
1879 H. Crosby Christian Preacher vii. 191 The Sabbath is a stop-day.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 5/2 It is believed that another stop day will shortly be observed by the colliers of South Wales with a view to restricting the output of coal.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded
stop-dice1540
bar1545
flat1545
gourd1545
barred dicec1555
bristle-dicec1555
fulhamc1555
graviersc1555
high manc1555
langretc1555
low manc1555
cheat1567
dice of vantage?1577
demy1591
forger1591
squarier1592
tallmen?1592
stop cater trey1605
demi-bar1606
downhill1664
high runner1670
low runner1670
doctor1688
tat1688
uphill1699
cut1711
loaded dice1771
dispatcher1798
dispatch1819
miss-out1928
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. ii. sig. Siv Dyce of aduantage, or false dyce, or stoppe dyce.
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching To Rdr. sig. A3v Gourds, stoppe-dice, high-men, low-men.
stop-dog n. = stop-hound n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > defined by characteristics or training
stop-hound1711
skirter1781
stop-dog1789
trail-hound1931
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 18 They gave him [sc. the deer], by their watches, law, as they called it, for twenty minutes; when, sounding their horns, the stop-dogs were permitted to pursue.
stop-drill n. a drill with a shoulder or collar to limit the depth of penetration.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > other drills
jumper1769
screw drill1821
stop-drill1843
hand drill1845
Swiss drill1846
traverse-drill1853
crown borer1854
pin drill1858
foot drill1860
perforator1861
pin-bit1873
Archimedean drill1889
paddy1895
stope drill1908
stem1914
screw gun1945
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 342 This is frequently regulated by boring holes..with a stop-drill.
stop-finger n. a device for arresting motion in machinery.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which > specifically a machine
stop-motion1851
stopper1863
stop-off1869
stop-finger1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stop-finger, a device in a silk-doubling machine for stopping the motion of the bobbin if the thread break.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 248 The chain would raise the end of the stop finger.
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1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 39 in Jewell House Mee~thinks I am now in the midst of a stop galiard, &..coulde finde in my hearte to commaunde the Violands to cease, and so to breake off.
stop-gate n. (a) a gate placed across a railway; (b) a gate by which the water in one section of a canal can be shut off from the next in case of damage to the bank; (c) a stop-valve.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > gate
stop-gate1790
crossing-gate1929
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice
hatchOE
clowa1250
lock1261
water lock1261
sluice1340
water gate1390
sewer-gate1402
spay1415
floodgatec1440
shuttlec1440
spayer1450
gate1496
falling gate1524
spoye1528
gote1531
penstock1542
ventil1570
drawgate1587
flood-hatch1587
turnpike1623
slaker1664
lock gate1677
hatchway1705
flash1768
turnpike-lock1771
sluice-gate1781
pound-lock1783
stop-gate1790
buck gate1791
slacker1797
aboiteau1802
koker1814
guard-lock1815
falling sluice1819
lasher1840
fender1847
tailgate1875
weir-hatch1875
wicket1875
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > gate across railway
stop-gate1790
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve
cockc1483
window1576
stopcock1584
register1612
shut1651
valve1659
flap1824
shut-off1869
stop-tap1895
stop-gate1902
1790 Act 30 Geo. III c. 82 §58 The Person or Persons making every such Cut shall..make, erect, and maintain a Stop Gate or Stop Gates on every such Cut, in order to prevent the Water being drained..out of the said Canal.
1793 Act 33 Geo. III c. 95 §40 Every Horse..which shall..travel upon any such Rail or Waggon Way,..and shall pass through or by any Stop Gate..erected upon or across the same.
1872 D. Stevenson Canal & River Engin. (ed. 2) 16 It is necessary to introduce stop-gates at short intervals of a few miles,..so that in the event of a breach occurring, the gates may be shut, [etc.].
1898 Daily News 14 Dec. 6/3 An engine,..over-running the stopgate, ran down an incline at a great rate.
1902 Science 10 Jan. 66 The closing of the stop-gate [= valve] is instantaneous.
stop-ground n. = ground n. 6d.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > etching > ground
soft ground1662
etching-ground1728
stop-ground1809
stopping mixture1815
stopping-ground1837
1809 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XIII. at Etching This varnish or composition (which is called stop-ground) being sufficiently dry, the aquafortis may be poured on the plate.
stop-handle n. = stop-knob n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop-knob
stop1585
stop-handle1858
piston1873
stop-knob1887
piston knob1890
thumb-piston1904
speaking stop1938
1858 J. Baron Scudamore Organs 19 They had no notion how the sound was..modified, beyond knowing that..certain stop handles [must be] pulled out or pushed in during the playing of the instrument.
stop-hound n. a hound trained to hunt slowly and to stop at a signal from the huntsman.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > defined by characteristics or training
stop-hound1711
skirter1781
stop-dog1789
trail-hound1931
1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116. ⁋3 Sir Roger, being at present too old for Fox-hunting,..has disposed of his Beagles and got a Pack of Stop-Hounds.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xix. 244 Were fox-hounds to stop, like stop-hounds, at the smack of a whip, they would not do their business the worse for it.
stop-knob n. the handle which is pulled out to open a particular stop in an organ.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop-knob
stop1585
stop-handle1858
piston1873
stop-knob1887
piston knob1890
thumb-piston1904
speaking stop1938
1887 W. S. Pratt in W. Gladden Parish Problems 435 The notion that his organ consists merely of a set of keys and stop-knobs.
stop lamp n. a light on the rear of a motor vehicle, which is automatically illuminated when the brakes are applied.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > other exterior lights
side lamp1780
brake light1853
running light1863
spotlight1875
rear lamp1884
spotlamp1900
sidelight1906
parking lamp1926
parking light1927
reversing lamp1927
stop light1930
pass light1938
pass lamp1948
stop lamp1959
parker1967
1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) viii. 217 Sidelamps, headlamps, rear lamps and stop lamps should also be examined for bulb failure.
1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 2/6 Defendant was fined £3 for having no stop lamp, £ 3 for having no rear lamp and £3 for having no number plate lighting.
stop light n. (a) = stop lamp n. above; (b) North American = stop sign n. below; also figurative.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > red or green signal
red light1790
stop light1930
green1936
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific
red light1790
green arrow1875
amber light1896
yellow1900
yellow light1920
amber1929
stop light1930
stop sign1934
filter1939
red1940
green1962
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > other exterior lights
side lamp1780
brake light1853
running light1863
spotlight1875
rear lamp1884
spotlamp1900
sidelight1906
parking lamp1926
parking light1927
reversing lamp1927
stop light1930
pass light1938
pass lamp1948
stop lamp1959
parker1967
1930 D. G. Mackail How Amusing! 190 His stop-light flickered almost ceaselessly as he crawled round the square.
1931 O. Nash Hard Lines 45 But there is no stoplight For a talkative cosmoplite.
1950 How to drive Car (ed. 18) xi. 88 Most cars are now fitted with direction indicators and ‘stop’ lights. The latter are automatic if properly maintained and come on when the brakes are applied.
1978 Verbatim Sept. 7/2 The tremendous role that traffic signals play in our national consciousness (it can be argued that the entire Interstate system was built in order to get around—and under and over—stoplights).
stop list n. (a) a list of persons, etc., deprived of particular rights, privileges, or services; spec. a list of persons with whom members of an association are forbidden to do business; (b) a list of prohibited books; (c) a list of words to be omitted from a concordance or index.
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society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > list of prohibited books
stop list1920
society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > debarring > list of persons
stop list1920
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > loss or deprivation of any right > list of persons
stop list1920
society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > indexing > list to be omitted from index
stop list1920
1920 Daily Tel. 18 May 16/5 The association published his name on their stop list, the object of which was to prevent all members of the association having any trade relations with the offending agent.
1928 Daily Express 27 Apr. 2/4 To restrain the..Association from publishing their names on a ‘stop list’ where are inserted the names of people to be boycotted.
1958 Times 13 Mar. 11/3 A nation with what is reported to be over 1,000 books on the stop-list had got enough censorship.
1963 Times 28 Jan. 9/2 Merseyside was on the original list but within a few months, because of the motor industry's plans and other new projects, was put on the stop-list. Last week it was restored to the active list.
1963 Times 29 May 7/2 The practice of ‘stop-listing’, ‘delisting’, and then ‘relisting’ areas can be a powerful deterrent to industrialists.
1970 Computers & Humanities 4 167 This program segment provides for two stoplists.
1974 Times 5 Feb. (Europa Suppl.) p. xiv/5 With credit cards the vendor has to check against the stop list (to check on people who have had their accounts stopped, or cards that have been reported missing).
1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xxi. 185 I intend to hold your passport... I'm also putting you on a stop list at Kai Tak [airport]... I don't want you disappearing.
1979 J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-house Information Syst. i. 74 Words in a title are compared with a stop-list, to suppress the generation of useless index entries.
stop-list v. (transitive) to include in a stop list.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > debar (a person)
forbarc1330
shutc1400
debarc1430
repel1480
abara1504
abridge1523
seclude?1531
bar1551
fence1589
bebar1650
limit1722
to shut out1819
stop-list1949
1949 Rep. Comm. Resale Price Maintenance 54 in Parl. Papers 1948–9 (Cmd. 7696) XX. 383 Only the ‘open price-cutter’ who advertised that he was committing a breach of the conditions of sale was immediately stop-listed.
1979 J. E. Rowley Mechanised In-house Information Syst. i. 74 The stop-list or stopword list contains words under which entries are not required, such as the, he, is, a and in some circumstances, machine, processing, plant, etc.
stop log n. a log or plank, or a beam or plate of concrete or steel, fitting between vertical grooves in walls or piers to close a water channel.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > plank or beam
stop log1930
1930 Engineering 6 June 725/3 Each weir is divided into six bays by piers, between which stop logs can be placed, while for emergency regulation..low level Stoney sluices are provided.
1973 Detroit Legal News 30 Aug. 13/2 Two feet of the south stop-log chamber wall at the Fairview Pumping Station was removed and had to be replaced with new reinforced concrete.
stop-mount n. = sense 12.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > stop
stop1831
stop-mount1879
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 312/2 The paper stop-mount should be printed in black.
stop-needle n. (see quot. 1901).
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1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 2) at Needle Stop-needle, a needle with a shoulder that prevents it being plunged in more than a certain distance.
stop-net n. (a) a net thrown across a river or tidal channel to intercept fish; (b) a net to stop the ball, in various games.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > fixed net
stall net1246
trink1311
set net1481
trinkerc1485
pitch1523
half-net1538
trink-net1584
stop-net1634
toot-net1805
yair-net1805
stob-net1806
seta1808
stake-net1836
barrier-net1884
boom net1925
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play > nets
net1884
stop-net1891
stop-netting1927
1634–5 Irish Act 10 Chas. I c. 14 (1678) 426 Setting of stop-Nets, Still-Nets or standing-Nets fixed upon posts..in the Rivers where the Salmon should passe up from the Sea.
1808 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 8 Went fishing with a casting net and a stop net.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 138 The stop-net is then shot out towards the land across the direction in which the fish are moving, so as to intercept them.
1891 W. G. Grace Cricket viii. 223 A piece of ground..thirty to forty yards long,..with stop-nets, will serve your purpose [for practice].
stop-netting n. = stop-net n. (b).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > area for play > nets
net1884
stop-net1891
stop-netting1927
1927 Daily Express 30 May 3/5 The proper run-back for a court should be 21 ft. from the base-line to the stop-netting.
1981 Sunday Tel. 4 Oct. 16/3 A badly-flighted lob cleared the stop-netting.
stop-order n. (a) an order issued by the Court of Chancery to stay payment of funds in the custody of the Court; (b) an order directing a broker to buy or sell stock at a specified price, in order to limit loss.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > other processes, writs, or warrants
trailbaston1304
gavelet1313
withernam1314
praemunire facias1425
Valentine1556
statute of bankrupt1622
safeguard1670
avocatory1689
information quo warranto1690
statute of lunacy1706
jedge and warrant1720
habeas corpora1838
stop-order1875
caution1959
1875 W. Royle Laws Funds etc. 75 A Stop Order is a proceeding merely applicable to funds in the Court of Chancery.
stop-piece n.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > that which arrests
stay?1523
scotch1639
to put a stopper on1828
stop-piece1840
backstop1851
stop-pin1869
sprag1878
arrester-
1840 in Newton's London Jrnl. Conjoined Ser. 16 326 One of the ends of the locking lever..is brought by the force of the main spring against or into coincidence with a ruby pallat or stop-piece.
stop-pin n. a piece or pin serving to arrest some moving part.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > that which arrests
stay?1523
scotch1639
to put a stopper on1828
stop-piece1840
backstop1851
stop-pin1869
sprag1878
arrester-
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.N 1 Two adjustable stop pins, i, are fixed at points corresponding to the period for reversing the motion of the machine.
stop-plank n. (see quot. 1840).
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1840 H. S. Tanner Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 260 Stop planks, dams on the line of a canal to prevent the loss of water in case of accident.
stop-plate n. (a) in a lock (see quot. 1837); (b) in a journal-box (see quot. a1884).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > bolt > plate
stop-plate1837
striking-plate1837
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > journal > part which encloses or supports > parts of
pillow block1814
pillar block1827
stop-plate1837
step-bearing1873
step1875
1837 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. II. 108 A circular stop-plate, to prevent the withdrawal of the bolt [of a lock] till the circular plate, which is put in rotation by clock-work, shall have revolved so as to bring a notch opposite the end of the bolt.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 868/1 Stop Plate, a metallic plate in the inside of a journal-box which forms an end-bearing for the axle and checks its end-motion.
stop-quoin n. (also stop-coin) a quoin used for keeping a gun steady.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > wedge to secure gun
quoin1627
quoiner1637
stop-quoin1859
stop-coinc1860
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 112 Stop quoins.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for other specific uses
mazera1200
waywoodware1334
piling1422
tenter-timber1562
pinwood1580
mazer wood1594
stop-rice1653
pudlay1679
puncheon1686
veneer1702
pit-wood1715
broach-wood1835
chipwood1838
matchwood1838
fretwood1881
pulpwood1881
coffin-wood1883
bur1885
spool-wood1895
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 258 Stoprice, Yokings, Soletrees, Roach and Ryder.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. K1 Ordinary Timber or Stoprice.
stop-ridge n. Archaeology a ridge on a celt, pipe, etc. which prevents one part from slipping too far over another.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts
scyphus1722
ceraunite1814
skyphos1847
shaft-hole1852
ostracon1853
scramasax1862
shard1865
ovate1872
omphalos1884
stop-ridge1894
tsung1904
pygmy flint1907
spacer1907
dotaku1908
yuan1912
roughout1913
rostro-carinate1919
shawabti1922
racloir1923
shoe-last1927
sleeve1929
ard1931
proto-biface1967
1894 Notts & Derbysh. Notes & Queries Aug. 110 Sixteen socketed celts, four spear-heads,..a palstave with three ribs on the diaphragm above the stop-ridge, a ferrule, and other objects.
1902 A. J. Evans in Ann. Brit. Sch. Athens 1901–2, 14 The mouthpiece of each tube is provided with a stop-ridge.
stop-rod n. (a) Mining [? to stope n.2] , in plural, the wattling of the shafts of a mine; (b) Weaving a rod which forms part of the mechanism for stopping the motion of the loom.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > wattling of
stop-rod1747
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. D4 Brouse, a course sort of Stoping,..put into the Pannes, at the Back of the Stoprods, or Bangrets, in Sinking,..to hold the Geer from falling down.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > other types of screw
wrench1552
needle screw1663
female screw1667
stop-screw1680
male screw1682
wood-screw1733
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screw eye1787
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screw shaft1818
union joint1819
union screw1820
right-and-left screw1821
binding-screw1828
coach screw1874
lag bolt1893
grub-screw1903
Allen screw1910
multithread1921
self-tapper1949
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 237 The Stop-screw, to take out when the Hollow Axis moves in the Moving Collar.
stop-seine n. Fisheries (see quot. 1880-4).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net
seinec950
seine-net1603
sweep-net1605
shackle-head1762
sweeping-net1809
hang-net1812
stop-seine1825
purse seine1838
ring net1851
scringe1851
trawl-net1855
sweep-seine1856
ground-seine1874
purse seine net1879
shore seine1884
trek-net1913
1825 Encycl. Londinensis XX. 435/1 This stop-sean is left in the water, till, by successive tuckings, night after night, all the fish are taken therefrom.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. p. c Common seines or stop-seines are such as are lifted at once with the enclosed fishes into the boat.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. xix. 315 The boat..then shoots this tuck-sean within the stop-sean.
stop sign n. a sign indicating that traffic should stop; North American spec., a red traffic-light.
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red light1790
green arrow1875
amber light1896
yellow1900
yellow light1920
amber1929
stop light1930
stop sign1934
filter1939
red1940
green1962
1934 Amer. Speech 9 114/2 Those who drive have to make allowances for stop streets and stop signs.
1951 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 28 Jan. 1/7 Mitchell..had been arrested on charges of reckless driving and running a stop sign.
1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 27 June 14/4 Guy forgot to turn on his lights. And ran a stop sign. A policeman pulled him over.
1976 S. Wales Echo 27 Nov. 9/3 Pleaded guilty by letter to failing to conform to a stop sign while on his motor-cycle.
stop signal n. a signal indicating whether a train should stop.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > specific signal
red light1790
danger1841
danger-signal1848
line clear1869
highball signal1894
starter1895
red board1903
stop signal1923
identification light1931
1923 W. G. Chapman 10.30 Limited x. 79 The home signal is the second signal reached and is usually near a signal box. It is a stop signal and must not be passed at ‘Danger’.
1963 G. M. Kichenside & A. R. Williams Brit. Railway Signalling ii. 16 Stop signals are..divided into two types: ‘home’ signals, usually placed on the approach side of a signal box, and ‘starting’ signals, placed beyond or in advance of a signal box... Before a signalman can accept a train from the previous signal box, the line must usually be clear for ¼-mile beyond his home signal.
stop-speculum n. (see quot. 1901).
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1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 2) at Speculum Stop-speculum, an eye-speculum with an appliance for controlling the degree to which its branches spread.
stop-stroke n. Croquet a stroke which drives a croqueted ball to a distance, while leaving the striker's ball more or less stationary.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > types of stroke
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cut1874
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jump-stroke1874
take-off1874
tice1874
passing croquet1877
split1896
split stroke1897
passing stroke1901
jump shot1909
Hong Kong1957
split shot1975
1868 W. J. Whitmore Croquet Tactics 15 The stop stroke is made as follows. Place the balls in line and touching;..bring the mallet head sharply down on the ball you strike.
stop-tap n. = stopcock n.
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cockc1483
window1576
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register1612
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flap1824
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stop-tap1895
stop-gate1902
1895 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Brit. Architects 14 Mar. 350 Pipes should be run on inside walls and fitted with several stop-taps.
stop-thrust n. Fencing a thrust delivered at the opponent at the moment when he advances for attack (cf. 20).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
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lunge1748
beat1753
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opposition1771
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timing1771
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one-two-three1809
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remise1823
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time attack1889
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punta dritta1961
1861 G. Chapman Foil Pract. i. 20 The Time Thrust is a sudden attack..; it is designated..a Stop Thrust when it arrests the adversary on his advance.
1889 W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 91 The Stop-thrust (i.e. Coup d'Arrêt).
stop time n. Jazz a stop chorus or a series of stop chords.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz
jazz1918
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chorus1926
stop time1929
tag1929
lick1932
riff1933
ride1935
release1936
sock chorus1936
rideout1939
screamer1940
stop chords1941
chase1942
stop chorus1942
mop1945
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > series of chords
stop time1929
stop chords1941
1929 Musical Q. 15 611 As to what possibilities such free-will tricks as the jazz ‘break’, stop-time, the harmony chorus, an exaggerated syncopation, etc., hold for the development of musical form beyond jazz itself, he would be bold who would predict.
1966 New Yorker 11 June 135 The Onward was playing ‘Victory Walk’, an engaging stop-time number.
1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. c16/2 Even in strongly swinging situations, jumping brightly through crisply muted breaks and stop time, the singing flow of Mr. Vaché's playing is never lost.
stop-valve n. a valve which closes a pipe against the passage of fluid.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others
washer1596
turncock1702
air cock1709
Jack-in-the-box1728
runner1754
stop-valve1829
three-way cock1838
ball valve1839
relief valve1846
poppet valve1851
plunger valve1854
pot-lid1856
reflux valve1857
screw-down1864
mica valve1880
tide flap1884
tube-valve1884
swing-tap1892
relay valve1894
Schrader1895
pilot valve1900
mixer valve1904
spool valve1908
spill valve1922
safety valving1930
three-way1939
1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Hydraulics ii. 13 K is the stop-valve, covering the top of the feed-pipe.
stop volley n. Tennis (see quot. stop n.2).
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1915 M. E. McLoughlin Tennis as I play It 56 That is when a ‘stop-volley’ is employed to drop a ball just over the net.
1928 B. Nuthall Learning Lawn Tennis 106 One of the most useful strokes in the game..is what is called the ‘stop volley’... It is necessary to be quite close to the net to play it. The racket is just put in the way of the ball, which drops dead on the other side of the net.
1978 Times 4 July 19/2 Ground strokes were spiced with many a delicate angled cross-court chip, the stop volley, the lob and smash.
stopway n. an area at the end of an airfield runway in which an aircraft can be stopped after an interrupted take-off.
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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > runway > area where take-off can be stopped
stopway1960
1960 in Guide to Civil Land Aerodrome Lighting (B.S.I.) 7 Stopway, a defined rectangular area at the end of a runway which has been selected or prepared as a suitable area in which aircraft can be stopped after an interrupted take off but which is not suitable for use as part of the runway.
1980 Observer 2 Nov. 6/8 A..DC-10 from Delhi ran from the runway on to the stopway, the hard section on either side, which is meant to be firm enough to take the weight of aircraft.
stop-wither n. Whaling (see quot. 1820).
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > harpoon > parts of
shank1820
stop-wither1820
fluec1860
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 224 The little reverse barb, or ‘stop wither’ as it is called,..prevents the harpoon from being shaken out by the ordinary motions of the whale.
stop-wool n. Hat-making (see quot. 1839).
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 637 Round the edge of the tip or crown [of a silk hat], a quantity of what is called stop wool is to be attached..which will render the edge soft and elastic.
stop word n. a word (usually one of a set of the words most frequently occurring in a language or text) that is automatically omitted from or treated less fully in a computer-generated concordance or index.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > data entry > [noun] > processing > omitted data
stop word1969
1969 Computers & Humanities 3 135 If stop words are desired, the user can either specify his own or request a standard list which is encoded within BIBCON.
1982 Notes & Queries Oct. 385/1 I understand that a microfiche concordance of the stop words will soon be available.
stop-work n. a mechanism to prevent the overwinding of the spring of a watch, etc.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack of the clockhouse1563
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virgule1884
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trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1869 Horolog. Jrnl. 1 Apr. 91/1 Dispensing with stop works, which..are objectionable when economy is an object.
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stop-volley v. Tennis and Squash transitive and intransitive to volley (an opponent's shot) by absorbing the power of the incoming ball in such a way that it bounces off the racket and falls just over the net; to play a stop volley (against); cf. drop-volley vb. at drop- comb. form Additions.
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1920 W. T. Tilden Art of Lawn Tennis xiii. 140 He angles soft to the side-lines, stop volleys the hardest drives successfully.
1923 Register (Adelaide) 18 Aug. 13/4 He cannot stop volley; if he attempts to do so he invariably permits the ball to roll from his racquet into the net.
1997 D. Rutnagur Khans Unlimited: Hist. Squash in Pakistan 28 My effort to reach for my wallet was checked with the same speed of reflexes with which he stop-volleyed el Karim's attempted passing shots.
2008 Independent on Sat. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 15 Nov. (Sport section) 16 Federer stop-volleyed and rescued a seemingly impossible drop-shot, but cracked on set point against his serve.
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stop-volleying n. Tennis the action of stop-volley vb. at Additions.
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1901 Golf & Lawn Tennis 30 Nov. 588 They were all past-masters in stop-volleying at the net across the court, and could play from the base-line as well.
1975 R. S. Whitington Illustr. Hist. Austral. Tennis 77/1 He was an artist at lobbing and stop-volleying and a lethal smasher.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stopv.
/stɒp/, U.S. /stɑp//stɒpt/, † stopt. Also Middle English–1500s stoppe, Middle English–1600s stopp, Middle English stope; ScottishMiddle English, 1600s stope, (1500s stoip), 1500s, 1700s–1800s stap. I. To fill up, plug, close up.† 2. absol. To make a closure or obstruction. Obsolete.† 5. To mend (a garment); to make good or mend (cloth, metal-work) with an inferior material.† 6. To stanch the bleeding of, bind up (a wound). Obsolete. (Cf. 14d.)figurative.1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. viii. 40 Now ciuill wounds are stopt, peace liues againe. View more context for this quotationa1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. B 2 My hart still bleeds Nor can my wounds be stopt, till an incision, I'ue made to bury my dead father in.† 10. † b. to stop out: to shut out, exclude. to stop off: to keep back (a crowd). Obsolete.† c. To exclude from. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To close up (an aperture) by stuffing something into it, by building it up, or by placing something before it.figurative.1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 71 We..Must..stop al sight-holes euery loope from whence The eie of reason may prie in vpon vs. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 43 Stop vp th'accesse, and passage to Remorse, That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose. View more context for this quotation† b. To close the mouth of (a pit or hole). Obsolete.† f. intransitive in passive sense: To become choked up. Obsolete.
a. To block up (a way of entrance or exit, an aperture for the passage of light, air, sound, and the like). Also with up.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice
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steekc1380
stopc1400
quirt1532
to close up1542
to fill up1598
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caulk1616
cork1650
busha1659
instop1667
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage
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withseta1300
stop13..
speara1325
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precludea1513
interclude1526
to shut up1526
forestall1528
fence1535
hedge1535
quar1542
foreclose1548
forestop1566
to flounder up1576
obstruct1578
bar1590
retrench1590
to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596
barricade1606
barricado1611
thwartc1630
blocka1644
overthwart1654
rebarricado1655
to choke up1673
blockade1696
embarrass1735
snow1816
roadblock1950
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxix. 132 Þe ȝates þat Alysaundre gert stoppe with grete stanes and syment.
1480 Coventry Leet Bk. 460 The seid dore owe to be stopped vp.
c1480 (a1400) Seven Sleepers 164 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 430 Þai..of þe cawe þe mouth of stane stopyt wele.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 155 Shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole: stop that, 'twill flie with the smoake out at the chimney. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 457 Stop the holes of the doore with double Matts.
1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 22 My Business was to stop the Touchhole, whilst the other spunged it.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stop the Vent, to close it hermetically by pressing the thumb to it.
1891 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily xv The gates [of the kraal] were stopped with thorns.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > a hole or pit
stopa1382
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 4 Kings iii. 19 And alle the wellis of watirs ȝe schuln stoppen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 6726 If any mon makeþ a pit And siþen wol not stoppe hit If ox or asse or oþere beest Falle þerinne [etc.].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/2 Stoppyn a pytte or an hole, opilo, obstruo, obturo.
c. To block the mouth of (an animal's hole or earth); spec. in Fox-hunting (see quots. 1686, 1897). †Also with up. Also, to block up the earths in (a particular district).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > block hole
stop1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 736/2 I stoppe a hoole or an yerth of any beest in the ground, je bouche... I have stoppyd all the foxys hooles and therefore he can nat scape us.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxix. 192 The Huntsman which would haue good pastime at this vermine, shall do well to stop vp his earthes.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 88 Having found a Foxes Earth, about Midnight..cause all his Holes to be stopt..except the main Hole or Eye,..which stop not until about Day~break, for fear of stopping him in.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xxiii. 306 [Digging of foxes.] Stop all the holes, lest the fox should bolt out unseen.
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xxiii. 308 [Oxford toast.] Hounds stout, and horses healthy, Earths well stopp'd, and foxes plenty.
1880 ‘Brooksby’ Hunting Countries ii. 198 For the border meets of either [Hunt] the neighbouring territory is always ‘stopped’ by the other.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 547/2 [article Hunting] It was his [sc. the earth-stopper's] duty to proceed to the earths situated in the country which was to be drawn the next day, and carefully to stop them with earth or faggots about the hour of midnight.
d. To close with the finger or with a mechanical substitute (a ventage or finger-hole of a wind-instrument) in order to produce a particular note.
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stop1832
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic viii. 204 Seven of these regulated the motions of the seven fingers for stopping the holes of the flute.
e. Said of the obstruction: To block, choke up. Also in passive, to be choked up with (dirt, etc.). Now chiefly with up.
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stop?a1513
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > said of the obstruction
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a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 And gor is tua grym ene..And gorgeit lyk tua gutaris that war with glar stoppit.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 193 When your Terriers are out of breath, or that the Belles [on their collars] are stopped and glutted vp with earth.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 82 This Aiax..Has not so much wit..As will stop the eye of Hellens needle.
1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) viii. clxxvi. 116 His mouth the coal-black foam here stoping.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel 416 Of a well the whole [entrance] was..covered..by a stone,..to keep it..from being stopped by sand.
1885 Law Times Rep. 52 723/1 One of the stack pipes was stopped up with leaves and dirt.
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1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 194 The Colerake to clense the hole and to keepe it from stopping vp.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 197 Quills which..have but one Hole for the Water to issue at..not being so subject to stop, as the flat ones.
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 52 Injured..by a leading land-ditch stopping, which overflowed that part of the field.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > make a closure or obstruction
stop?c1225
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 59 Asswa se ȝe maȝen iseon. water hwenne me Punt hit & stoppeð hit bifore wel þet hit ne maȝe dunewart þenne is hit ined aȝein forto climben upwart.
3. transitive. To make (a way) impassable by blocking up its passage or outlet.figurative.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 344 The Balie had stopet the way of freindschip betueine him and ffrance.1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 10 Evill manners are as perfectly learnt without books a thousand other ways which cannot be stopt.1882 A. Bain James Mill iii. 88 He had induced Sir Francis Burdett to offer to transfer the interest of £1000,..but legal difficulties stopped the way.
a. To block, choke up (a road, channel, harbour, and the like). Also with up.
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to shut up1526
forestall1528
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hedge1535
quar1542
foreclose1548
forestop1566
to flounder up1576
obstruct1578
bar1590
retrench1590
to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596
barricade1606
barricado1611
thwartc1630
blocka1644
overthwart1654
rebarricado1655
to choke up1673
blockade1696
embarrass1735
snow1816
roadblock1950
13.. K. Alis. 1224 He stopped [Laud MS. forstopped] heore way, y-wis, That ther no myghte, to heore fode, Come to heom no gode.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 306 The schippis com in sic plente,..That all the havyn wes stoppit then.
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. lii. sig. D jv Yf thou wylt stoppe an hauen (my consayle is) to fyll a shyppe full of greate stones, and then to drowne the same shyp, ouerthwarte in the hauen.
1588 T. Hughes Misfortunes Arthur iii. iii. 10 The mustering traines Stop vp the streetes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 291 Mountains of Ice, that stop th' imagin'd way Beyond Petsora Eastward. View more context for this quotation
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 159 The enemy sunk the ship at the mouth of the harbour, which stopped up the channel.
1831 Society 1 276 The Countess of Avon's carriage stopping the way.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lvii. 573 Warehouses, with waggons at the doors, and busy carmen stopping up the way.
1911 S. R. Crockett Smugglers xix On the other [side of the hall] was a stand for the bicycle..which partially stopped the fairway.
b. To close (a road) to the public. Also with up.In this sense to stop up implies a physical barrier; the simple verb may refer to a mere prohibition of passage.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage > close (a road) to the public
stop1423
1423 Coventry Leet Bk. 56 The said hyȝe way þat leedyth from Allysley way to Coundull is stoppyd, wher hit owȝte to be open.
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 187 The other end [of the lane] is builded on and stopped vp by the Chamberlaine of London.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 65 These ways are since stopt up with Chains, Posts, and a Ditch.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 50 Inclosure came, and every path was stopt.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 747 The railway company had..altered and stopped up a certain road.
c. to stop one's way: to stand in one's way, bar one's passage, oppose one. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)]
to stop one's way1338
contraryc1380
again-laya1382
traversec1400
to make obstaclec1425
warc1460
thwart1519
oppugn1591
oppose1599
oppone1640
throwa1700
antagonize1707
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > make a closure or obstruction > bar someone's passage
to stop one's way1338
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up > block the way or a passage
forsetc900
withseta1300
stop13..
speara1325
withsperre1330
to stop one's way1338
shut1362
forbara1375
beseta1400
stopc1400
precludea1513
interclude1526
to shut up1526
forestall1528
fence1535
hedge1535
quar1542
foreclose1548
forestop1566
to flounder up1576
obstruct1578
bar1590
retrench1590
to shut the door in (also upon) (a person's) face1596
barricade1606
barricado1611
thwartc1630
blocka1644
overthwart1654
rebarricado1655
to choke up1673
blockade1696
embarrass1735
snow1816
roadblock1950
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 179 Slayn alle may þou se, þat þi way stopped [AFr. tes vayes estopaynt].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 107 Touch her who euer dare, Ile bring mine action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 261 I went; but sad Creusa stop'd my way, And cross the Threshold in my Passage lay.
4. figurative.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. ix. 16 There..will be alwaies..breaches and leakes moe then mans wit hath hands to stop.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. iv. 12 We shall to London get,..where this breach now in our Fortunes made May readily be stopt . View more context for this quotationc1616 F. Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Cabala (1663) 43 His Majesty in his time hath religiously stopped a leak that did much harm.
a. To fill up, repair, make good (a breach, hole, crevice, or defective place of any kind). Also with up. So to stop a leak (lit. and fig.). to stop a gap: see gap n.1 1, 2.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps
stop1388
beamfill1469
stuff1601
caulk1616
run1657
strike1668
fog1678
chinse1770
sneck1792
darn1801
pug1820
chink1822
grout1838
fillet1843
gallet1851
slush1875
putty1879
spackle1950
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > fill a vacant space or place > fill a hole or gap
stop1388
stuff1597
to fill up1598
to fay in1847
infill1958
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > become closed or shut [verb (intransitive)] > close a leak
to stop a leak1582
society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (intransitive)] > repair leak
to stop a leak1582
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Esdras iv. 7 Whanne Sanaballat hadde herd..that the brekyng of the wal of Jerusalem was stoppid [L. quod obducta esset cicatrix muri].
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 4088 Hay or clay to him he toke, And stoppid creuys in ilk a noke.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlv And to pleche downe the bowes of the same tre, to stoppe the holowe places [in a hedge]..if all the holowe and voyde places woll nat be fylled and stopped: thanne scoure the olde dyche and cast it vp newe.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. lxxv. 153 b Willyng them not to bee a fearde, but to goe forwarde in stopping the leake.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 The Chinks are stopt with Parchment pasted or glewed upon them.
1724 A. Ramsay Health 295 He causes stop each cranny in his room.
1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 515/2 [article Etching] The operator must be attentive to the ground, that it does not fail in any part, and where it does to stop up the place with the above composition.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth vi. 27 It would cost such a lot to stop the leaks in a seven-acre roof.
b. To plug (the seams of a boat) with oakum, tow, or other caulking material; †to caulk (a ship). Also to stop up.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > make watertight > caulk
caulk?a1500
stop1535
calfreta1600
cork1684
horse up1850
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxvii. 9 The eldest and wysest at Gebal were they, that mended & stopped thy shippes.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 223/2 To stoppe the ioynts of ships with mosse, okam, or tow: properly called to calke.
1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land ii. 24 The continual leaking of our rickety canoes obliged us to..spend hours in attempting to stop the seams.
c. Plastering, House-painting, etc. To fill up or make good the holes in (a surface to be covered with a wash, paint, or other material); †to close (the joints of brick-work), to ‘point’ (point v.1 1a).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > point
point1374
stop1557
teethe1794
torch1882
1557–8 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 258 To the same for painting prymering stoping gilding and varnishing of a greate Lyon.
1680–2 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 321 John Grove Plaisterer for washing stopping and Whiting the Kings and Queens Backstaires, [etc.].
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 A Brick Trowel to..stop the joints.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 337/2 The walls..of a light buff colour, rubbed down and stopped.
1903 P. N. Hasluck House Decoration viii. 117 Priming must be done before stopping the work... When dry, the work is rubbed down..and all nail-holes are stopped with putty.
d. Dentistry. To fill the cavity of (a decayed tooth) with a stopping.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > practise dentistry [verb (transitive)] > fill
stop1592
stuff1824
fill1848
remineralize1860
1592 J. Lyly Midas iii. ii If your tooth be hollow it must be stopt, or puld out.
1657 J. Cooke tr. J. Hall Sel. Observ. Eng. Bodies 87 To stop the tooth with a little Camphire.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xii. 308 One had his teeth peculiarly stopped with gold.
1907 H. Wales Yoke xi He [a dentist] stopped a tooth for me two years ago.
e. Glazing. To fasten (a quarrel or pane of glass) in a window; to putty (glass) in a sash.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with windows > fix (glass)
lead1530
stop1533
1533 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 262 For stopyng off vij quarelles in the same window.
1858 Skyring's Builders' Prices 93 Crown Glass, Stopped in Old Sashes.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] > with inferior material
stop1480
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] > mend fabric or clothing
to make againc1384
stop1480
draw1592
darnc1600
to draw up1603
fine-draw1665
plain-darn1880
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 32 Euerard the vpholster Can well stoppe [Fr. estoupper] A mantel hooled.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 18 §3 Nor shall falsefye or untrulie make or stoppe any manner Kerseyes withe flockes [etc.].
1645 in W. M. Williams Ann. Founders' Co. (1867) 98 No Founder..shall fill or stop with Lead and Brass Works made up by them.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)] > staunch a wound
stopa1400
a1400 Sir Beues 1936 A keuerchef to him a drouȝ..To stope mide is wonde.
c1400 Siege Jerusalem (1932) 48 Leches..Waschen woundes with wyn & with wolle stoppen.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xiv. x. 654 Thenne he stopped his bledyng wounde with a pyece of his sherte.
1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 579 O stoppe my woundes if ye can. Old Iohn. Ioane, take my napkin and thy apron, and bind vp his wounds.
7.
a. To close (a vessel or receptacle) by blocking its mouth with a cover, plug, or other stopper; similarly, to close (the mouth of a vessel); also, to shut up (something) in a stoppered vessel. Also with down, up.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > a receptacle
to shut upc1400
stopa1425
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in a receptacle
spear1303
to shut upc1400
shrine1592
occlude1623
stop1714
encase1727
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 92 Putte þat liquour..into a vessel aȝeyn and stoppe þe vessel þat þer come none aier out.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 34 And do hit [sc. venesone] in a barel þenne;..Stop wele þo hede for wynde and sone.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 709 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 80 I stoppe thys ovyn, wythowtyn dowte, With clay..That non heat shall cum owtte.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 31v Hauinge putte and left all these thinges in a violle well stopped, the space of two dayes.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 10 For men wil giue no mony for your book, vnles it be to stop mustard pots.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 552 Afterwards they put them vp in glasses, and stop the mouth close.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman viii. 71 Hauing as it were giuen you a taste, and stopped vp the vessell againe.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 17 Whatever Spirit..His Post neglects..Shall..Be stopt in Vials, or transfixt with Pins.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 176 Keep it close stopped in a Bottle for Use.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Vinegar Which being drawn off..and preserved in another cask, well stopped down, will continue perfect, and fit for use.
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 5 The beer in the cellar carefully stopped up.
1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light §148. 22 A tube of any kind stopped watertight will answer for this experiment.
b. Organ-building. To close (an organ pipe at its upper end) with a plug or cap.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > accessories [verb (transitive)] > voice, etc., organ pipe
voice1708
stop1782
borrow1894
revoice1898
1782 W. Hooper Rational Recreations (ed. 2) II. 231 The wooden pipes [of the organ] are square, and their extremity is stopped with a valve or tampion of leather.
1879 Organ Voicing 25 This in either case will be a 4-ft. pipe, stopped.
8. To obstruct the external orifice of (a bodily organ) by putting something in or on it or by pressing the parts together.† d. to stop (a person's) eyes or sight: to cover the eyes with a bandage, the hand, or other obstruction to the sight; also = to shut one's eyes. Obsolete.
a. to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears. Also figurative, to render oneself deaf to something, refuse to listen, to close one's mind against arguments, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen > refuse to listen
to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears1340
to lend a deaf earc1480
to lay to the deaf eara1500
to have (also put on) merchant's ears1593
solder1642
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > refuse to listen [phrase]
to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears1340
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 42 Genim þonne þæt seaw..do on þa ilcan wulle wring on eare & mid þære ilcan wulle for~stoppa þæt eare.]
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 257 Stoppe þine earen mid þornes, and ne hyer naȝt þe queade tongen.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxi. 13 Who stoppeth his ere at the cri of the pore.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 217 Þerfore stoppe þis gate of þin erys fro þe feend.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Obdere ceram auribus, to stoppe the eares with waxe.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 58 Hee perceyued hir eares stopped, and hearte hardened agaynste all perswasions of consolation.
1594 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 289 It is thought he had stopped his ears with wull at his deathe, for he never answered word to any thinge they said.
1607 S. Hieron Discovery of Hypocrisie 24 When Steuen preached, there was shouting and stopping the eares.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 51 Drop three or four Drops into the Ear,..and stop it with black Wool.
1815 J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 127 The avarice of the Jahrejahs, which was so powerful as to stop the ear against the most tender pleadings of nature.
1830 Forrester II. xi. 201 ‘Oh! horrid, horrid!’ exclaimed Peggy, stopping her ears.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xix. 27 And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 47 For a while they can stop their ears to the jokes and the rhymes.
b. to stop (one's own or another's) mouth: literal, as with a gag or muzzle; figurative to compel or induce to be silent; occasionally †to satisfy (a person's) appetite. Also, to stop the mouth of (a lion), to prevent him from devouring his prey.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > restrain a person or oneself from speaking
to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384
seal1782
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > prevent from eating
to stop the mouth ofc1384
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence
to put silence toc1384
to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384
to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464
mumc1475
stillc1540
to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth)1601
obacerate1656
bouche1721
to shut up1814
to pipe down1926
to button (a person's) lip (also mouth)1968
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > satisfying hunger or thirst > satisfy or relieve hunger or thirst [verb (transitive)] > satisfy hungry person
to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384
rassasy1483
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xi. 33 Thei stoppiden the mouthis of lyouns.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 58 The þrid skylle was forto stoppe mowthes, lest þay had sayde þat þay dyd not þe lawe.
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 17438 Thise knyghtes anon we yeftes bede That we may stoppe her mowþe with mede.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xl Some saie yt he had a smal office or a ferme to stoppe his mouthe with al.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 291 Speake cosin, or (if you cannot) stop his mouth with a kisse, and let not him speake neither. View more context for this quotation
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 28 The Baron of Ianque..(lest the Lady Admirall should cry out) held close her mouth stopt up with the sheetes.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul xxiii. 35 Under heaven there can be no bounds set to this intellectuall appetite: O do thou stop the mouth of my soul with thy self, who art infinite.
1714 E. Budgell tr. Theophrastus Moral Characters ii. 9 He..stops his Mouth with his Handkerchief that he may not laugh out.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vii. 148 The controversy may be fairly decided, and all mouths eternally stopped.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 236 Give it the breast or stop its mouth with pap!
1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám xxv. 6 Their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children xiv. 106 They wanted to know..who it was, and—and I just said it was my sister by way of stopping their mouths.
c. to stop one's nose, nostrils. ? Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > become short of breath > choke
choke?a1400
worrya1500
smotherc1528
gulp1530
stifle1594
to stop one's nose, nostrils1697
c1420 Sir Amadace (Camden) vii Butte suche a stinke in the chapelle he hade, That..He stopput his nace with his hude.
1532 J. Larke tr. Bk. Wysdome f. xlvii They passed by a place where ther was a deed horse, whiche dyd stynke very sore. Wherfore the Heremyte dyd stop his nose.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 79 Heauen stops the nose at it, and the Moone winkes. View more context for this quotation
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 14 Now stop your noses Readers, all and some, For here's a tun of Midnight-work to come.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 135 They stop his Nostrils, while he strives in vain To breath free Air. View more context for this quotation
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > blindfold or cover eyes
blindfold?c1225
to stop (a person's) eyes or sightc1380
enclose1477
silec1500
hoodwink1562
muffle1573
scarf1598
bluff1673
to seal (a person's) eyes or ears1700
bonnet1828
blink1846
occlude1921
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (transitive)] > move eyes > close eyes
shutc1366
to stop (a person's) eyes or sightc1380
sparec1400
close1667
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1162 Þe bond þat is fysage was bounde wyþ to stoppen is louely siȝt, þay ounbounde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 737/1 I stoppe ones eyes, I cover them with my hande, or with a clothe, that he shall nat se.
a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 28 We cannot without stopping our eyes exclude that light... Without stopping our ears we cannot but hear that universal shout.
9. In figurative context.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 65 To..purge th' obstructions, which begin to stop Our very Veines of Life.† b. passive. Of a person: To be afflicted with an obstruction of the bodily passages or organs. Obsolete.† c. stop my vitals (see stap n.).† d. To make costive, to bind. Also absol. Obsolete.
a. To close up, choke, obstruct (a canal, duct, passage or pipe in the animal body); to block the passage or passages of (a bodily organ). Also with up.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from > cut off from
exilec1330
rob1340
privea1387
stop1398
privatec1425
strangec1430
interclude1569
intercept1576
circumcise1613
prescind1640
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > cause vascular disorder [verb (transitive)] > obstruction or blockage
stopa1616
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xviii. d vj And yf yt sinew [sc. the auditory nerve] be stopped or greued wt some euyll, yt lettyth thoffyce therof.
?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns ii. iv. 22 As somtyme the bladder and sometyme the necke of the bladder is stopped..and stuffed and dystempred throgh excesse of vnkynde hete.
1573–5 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1907) I. 81 The smoulder stops our nose with stench.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 141 The frosty grasse at this time of yeere, doo stoppe their heades with rhume.
1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 394 If the passage through the nostrils should happen to be stopped up, as by a cold, or by any internal swelling.
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c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 300 Þe blood..wole boile vpward to þe brest,..þat þe pacient schal be ful nyȝ stoppid [L. quod patiens suffocatur].
1525 Herball sig. A.iii Aristologia rotunda..is medycynable and curable for those men that be stopped in the brest.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 252/1 As these men whiche haue bene a great while in a stincking place, become, as it were stopped.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations
woeOE
dahetc1290
confoundc1330
foul (also shame) fall ——c1330
sorrow on——c1330
in the wanianda1352
wildfirea1375
evil theedomc1386
a pestilence on (also upon)c1390
woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390
maldathaita1400
murrainc1400
out ona1415
in the wild waning worldc1485
vengeance?a1500
in a wanion1549
with a wanion1549
woe worth1553
a plague on——a1566
with a wanion to?c1570
with a wanyand1570
bot1584
maugre1590
poxa1592
death1593
rot1594
rot on1595
cancro1597
pax1604
pize on (also upon)1605
vild1605
peascod1606
cargo1607
confusion1608
perditiona1616
(a) pest upon1632
deuce1651
stap my vitals1697
strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697
stop my vitals1699
split me (or my windpipe)1700
rabbit1701
consume1756
capot me!1760
nick me!1760
weary set1788
rats1816
bad cess to1859
curse1885
hanged1887
buggeration1964
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Stop my Vitals, a silly Curse in use among the Beaux. [Cf. 1697 at stap v., 1716-20 at stap v., 17301 at stap v., 17302 at stap v., 1839 at stap v.]
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > constipation
stop1542
detain1580
obstipate1710
restringe1710
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > cause excretory disorder [verb (transitive)] > constipation
constipate1541
stop1542
inveterate1574
detain1580
bind1597
restringe1598
confine1870
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Aluum sistere, to stoppe or bynde.
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Sisto Aluum sistere, to stoppe or bynde the bealy.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health iv. 24 Bread ought not to be eaten hotte, because it stoppeth much.
1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 45 It stoppeth the belly, and nourisheth but little.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 281 The one [fodder] to scour them, the other to stop and fat them.
a. To shut up, block up (a person or thing in a place). Also with adverb in, up. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
loukOE
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pind?c1225
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to shut up1490
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encloister1596
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confine1603
jail1604
hearse1608
bail1609
hasp1620
cub1621
secure1621
incarcera1653
fasten1658
to keep up1673
nun1753
mope1765
quarantine1804
peg1824
penfold1851
encoop1867
oubliette1884
jigger1887
corral1890
maroon1904
to bang up1950
to lock down1971
c1315 Shoreham Poems vii. 578 Wy nedde hy [devils] be ine helle y-stopped For euere mo.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7368 Þai salle be pressed togyder swa harde, Als þai war stopped togyder in ane oven.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxix. iv. 122 Thi hosebonde haþ my child ibrent, I-stopped him in a glouwyng houen.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5496 And raryfey, a rich ray, he in þe roche stoppis.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 227 As þis mason was brekand ane old wall, he fand a grete som of golde stoppyd in a hole.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 959 For thy yf combes ronke of hony wepe, Thre dayes stopped vp at home hem kepe.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxii. 196 When you haue stopped them in thus.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 53 Stop in your winde sir, tell me this I pray? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) i. iv. 38 But still the enuious Flood Stop'd [1597 Kept] in my soule, and would not let it forth.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. ix. 34 The English..do crosse the Creekes with long seanes or Basse Netts, which stop in the fish.
1712 J. Warder True Amazons 101 Prevented by a timely stopping up of the Bees, I do not mean by stopping them up quite.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > be on the outside of [verb (transitive)] > keep or shut out
loukc1275
speara1300
beshutc1330
forbarc1330
warn?a1366
to close outa1382
to shut outc1384
steeka1393
again-louka1400
to keep outc1425
outshutc1450
seclude1498
to stop outc1530
to hedge out1549
confine1577
to hold out1583
out-bar1590
debar1593
excommunicate1602
expel1604
immurec1616
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be far from [verb (transitive)] > keep (a thing or person) at a distance
to hold offc1420
withhold1513
to keep away1548
to keep off1548
to stop off1722
c1530 Bible (Tyndale) Jonah (title) With what keyes it is so opened that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man.
1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ iv. 174 Nothing would ever be able to stop out the Arian Heresie but the Nicene Faith.
1722 in Rutland Mag. (1905) 2 68 Pd. to ye men yt stop't off the crowd.
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1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. 81 The decreit, and scharp hand wryte, That stoppit vs fra the Father quyte, Furth of the myndis he withdrew.
11. † c. To press (a thing) to the nose. Obsolete.
a. To thrust, push (a thing, more rarely a person) in, into a receptacle or place; also, †to thrust (a boat under water). Chiefly Scottish.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > drive under water
stopc1480
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly
thrustc1175
quevena1400
stopc1480
ingyre1513
ram1519
dig1553
intrude1563
purr1574
spring1597
grub1607
inject1611
ingest1617
sock1843
to dig in1885
c1480 (a1400) St. George 458 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 189 And tak he gert salt smal & stope in til his wondis al.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 204 A galay..was so doung with the cannoun and other ordinance, that she was stopped under watter, and so almost drowned.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 26 Take two little round balles of flaxe or soft towe, and dipping them therein, stop them into the horses eares.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 134 He caus'd this Vizier to be stopp'd into the mouth of a cannon.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 108 She stopt these Billet-deux into her Master's Hand.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xvii. 125 I..throws on my waistcoat an' staps my feet in'o my sheen.
1915 G. Sinclair Poems 122 A wee black box was stappit Amang the frozen clay.
b. Scottish and northern. To thrust in the point or end of (a thing), to insert; to put in (a plant), hence to stop in, to plant.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > insert something pointed
pickc1400
prickc1450
strike1576
stop1731
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)]
setc725
planteOE
impc1420
enroot1490
implant1610
to put in1657
to plant out1664
to put out1699
to stop in1826
to put down1865
1731 J. Moncrief Poor Man's Physician in H. G. Graham Social Life Scot. (1901) I. vii. 52 Stop the finger into a cat's ear and it will be whole in half an hour.
1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds xxxviii. 342 I planted that [tree]..; I dibbled the yearth, and stappit it in there.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To stop in,’ to plant.
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Stop, to thrust; e.g. to stop the poker into the fire.
1896 A. J. Armstrong Cobbler o' Kirkiebrae xvii. 167 He..staps pushion'd preens through bonnie wee butterflies.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)]
breathe1532
flavour1542
season1559
smellc1595
resent1602
stop1607
fling1637
tinge1690
savour1832
odorize1857
steam1861
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 553 Some Marchants when they are to buy muske stop it to their noses, and holding their breath run halfe a stones cast, afterwards they pul it from their Nose.
12. † b. To stuff, pad (a dummy, garment, cushion, etc. with straw, flock or other material). Obsolete.† c. Cookery. To fill (the inside of a bird, a fruit, and the like) with herbs, spices, etc. preparatory to cooking. Also, to stop full. Cf. stuff v.1 6.† d. Dicing. To load (dice). Obsolete.† e. To plug (the feet of a horse) with something as a dressing; also, to pad (a horse) round the body with straw. Obsolete.
a. To cram (a receptacle with something); also to stop full. Obsolete exc. Scottish.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram
cramc1000
pitchc1300
thrustc1380
purra1398
stopc1400
farcec1405
stuffc1440
line?1521
enfarce1531
threstc1540
pack1567
prag1567
prop1568
referse1580
thwack1582
ram1590
pang1637
farcinate1638
stivea1639
thrack1655
to craw outa1658
trig1660
steeve1669
stow1710
jam1719
squab1819
farcy1830
cram-jam1880
jam-pack1936
c1400 Melayne 1289 Þay..with grete stones Graythe gounnes stoppede those gones, With peletes vs to payne.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 34 Take tenderons of sauge with owte lesyng, And stop one fulle up to þo ryng.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 337 We stopp'd his [sc. the idol's] Eyes, and Ears, and Mouth full of Gun-Powder.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 137 Then I'll bang out my beggar dish, An' stap it fou o' meal.
1796 A. Wilson Loss o' Pack 3 Dear I lo'ed her, and..Stapped her pouches fu' o' preens and laces.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > make internal or interior [verb (transitive)] > line > pad or stuff
stopc1400
stuffc1450
bolster1530
suffulce1599
pad1741
wad1759
upholster1873
c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) iv. xxix. 61 Ymages made of clothe, stopped with strawe.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xliv. 59 b/2 The heed [of the dart] perced all the plates of his cote of mayle and a iacke stopped with sylke.
1620 in W. O. Blunt 1000 Years Church in Chester-le-Street (1884) 85 For flockes to stopp the quishions, 2 s.
1621 G. Markham Hungers Preuention 50 Stoping it with dry Strawe [etc.]..let it [the Stalking-horse] be painted as neere the colour of a Horse as you can deuise.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. iv. 180 in Wks. II Hee has offer'd To..preserue Each haire falls from him to stop balls with all.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (transitive)]
to stop full1342
farcea1400
force?a1400
stuffc1430
marinate1722
bombard1747
truffle1868
1342–3 [implied in: 1342–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 38 In ij stopped salmon emp., 4s. (at stopped adj. 1)].
c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) xxxiv. 25 Take persel and sawge.., take garlec and grapes and stoppe the Chikennes ful.
c1450 Douce MS 55 (Bodl.) xxvii Take quinces and stopp hem whith ynne with hole pepyr.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 48 Fyrst stop þy capone with saveray, With persyl, a lytil ysope.
1525 Herball sig. F.ivv This is called Persly... It is good in potage and to stoppe Chekyns.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. M2 Lamprey..stop the mouth with a Nut-meg, and the other holes with Cloves: then fry it.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (transitive)] > cheat
foist1545
strike1586
stop1596
top1663
palm1671
slip1711
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 41 As for Dice, he hath all kind of sortes,..some stopt with quick siluer, some with gold, some ground.
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 41 He stabs if you touch his stake, and stop me his dice, you are a villaine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to horse
discord1566
rake1566
stop1577
fire1607
unsole1805
mallein1915
hobday1938
tube1969
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 122v You must stop his hoofes with Cowe doung.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 123 For al halting [of horses].., mingle Hemp with the white of an egge, and stop the foote withall.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. i. 8 Walke not nor wash not [your horse] at all,..but set him vp warme, well stopt, and soundly rubbed with cleane litter.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. i. 8 Stop not your horses fore-feete with Cowes dung, till hee be sufficiently cold.
1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) i. v. 51 Cloath him, and stop him round with wispes.
1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) i. v. 52.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 272 To stop a horse's feet, remplir les pieds d'un cheval.
13. To press down (the tobacco in a pipe) with or as with a tobacco-stopper.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > fill pipe or cigarette with tobacco > press down tobacco
stop1847
1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xix. 167 He stopped the tobacco in his pipe with his little finger.
II. To bring to a stand.† 22. To hamper, hinder, impede the course or progress of (affairs, a project, etc.); to hinder (a person) in action or in some proceeding. Sometimes with clause as object. Obsolete.absolute.1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xv. 69 I will this moment stop three hundred and fifty leagues out of tune upon my fiddle, without punishing one single nerve that belongs to him.figurative.1875 E. Dowden Shakespere: his Mind & Art 282 When Shakspere finds himself shooting up too rapidly he ‘stops’ himself, as gardeners do a plant.
14. transitive. To prevent the passage of by blocking the channel or outlet.figurative and in extended use.1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 12 Her father..hasts our mariage, To stop the inundation of her teares. View more context for this quotationa1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee3/1 It is not in thy power to turn this destiny, not stop the torrent of those miseries.1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 651 (note) A princess, high-minded, yet gentle, with the current of her feelings stopped, when their tide ran purest.
a. To dam, keep back, block the channel of (water, a stream, and the like). Also with adverbs back, up.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [verb (transitive)] > impound water > dam
stop1398
demc1400
stem?c1450
den1487
dam1563
bay1605
stanch1643
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. iv. e vij b Clyffes & strondes stoppen and hold in the flood of the see.
1421 Coventry Leet Bk. 31 With filthe, dong and stonys the watur [is] stoppyd of his cours.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iv. sig. P7 The bankes are ouerflowne, when stopped is the flood.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 35 The Rivers stood on heaps, and stop'd the running Flood.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xviii. 108 By the labour of the Persians, the course of the river was stopped below the town, and the waters were confined.
1791 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) V. 100/1 A frame-work..closely calked, will stop back the whole or the greatest part of it [water in a mine].
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 136 Boys came..Stopping up the mimic rills, Till they forc'd their frothy bound.
b. To intercept (light, air, heat, etc.). to stop out, to exclude. Also, †to exclude the light from (a thing).
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > intercept or cut off (light) [verb (transitive)] > from something
stop1530
bescreen1597
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 285 Ac rys vp ragamoffyn, And reche me alle þe barres..And ich shal lette þis lorde, and hus light stoppe; Ar we þorw bryghtnesse be blent.
1508 J. Stanbridge Vulgaria (W. de W.) B iv Thou stoppest my light, Interpellas lumen.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 700/1 I shadowe a thyng, I stoppe it that it can nat apere clerely, je fais vmbre.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Obstruere luminibus, to lette that a manne canne not loke out of hys wyndowes, or to stoppe his lyghtes.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 sig. E2 York...Duke Humphrey, he well made away, None then can stop the light to Englands Crowne.
1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) i. 39 To turne day into night, by shutting the windowes..to stop out the Sun-shine.
1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope iii. 129 The object (provided it be of a nature to stop enough light) is seen bright upon a dark field.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 194 These will form rabets and stop out the wind and weather.
c. to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) of: to prevent the respiration of, to suffocate, stifle, choke; hence, to cause to die. †Also with up.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by smothering or suffocation
smorec725
athrysmc885
stranglea1300
overliea1382
forliea1400
to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400
overlayc1425
querken1440
smoulder1481
suffoke1490
stiflea1535
smoor1535
smother1548
suffocate1599
asphyxiate1835
asphyxy1843
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > choke
stranglea1300
chokec1380
worrya1400
stiflec1400
to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400
scomfishc1480
to choke up1555
grane1613
suffocatea1616
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxii. 99 Þe preste..castez a clath on his mouth and stoppez his wynde.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xx. sig. S.vi If the doore shoulde be shutte vpon me, I would weene it would stoppe vp my breath.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 42 Those which blow forth such blasts [of slander], deserue to haue their winde stopt with a halter.
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. xviii. 155 They rusht into his Tent and stopt the breath Of all save few.
1780 R. Tomlinson Slang Pastoral 11 Will no blood-hunting foot-pad..Stop the wind of that nabbing~cull, constable Payne?
1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook ix, in Poems (new ed.) 58 Ye're maybe come to stap my breath.
d. To stanch (bleeding, blood).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)]
stint1398
strainc1425
upstaunchc1440
stem1488
stanch1573
stop1573
1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 213 When they..had all in vayne sought many ways to stop hir bleeding.
1685 in P. Wright New Bk. Martyrs (1784) 795/2 Lord, if it be thy holy will, stop this issue of christian blood, and let my guiltless blood be the last spilt on this account.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. cxiii. 414 The motion set both his wounds bleeding afresh; and it was with difficulty they again stopped the blood.
1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders IV. 7 He..stopped with styptics and bandages the effusion of blood which followed.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 364 Its [sc. the stone's] virtues are still applied to for stopping blood.
15. absolute.1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iv. 32 His adversary..stopped and countered as coolly as if he had only the gloves on.1867 A. L. Gordon Sea Spray 30 Don't stop with your head too frequently (This advice ain't meant for a nigger).
a. To arrest the onward movement of (a person or thing); to bring to a stand or state of rest; to cause to halt on a journey; also, to prevent the departure or starting of. †Const. of (one's passage) and with double object by omission of of.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of
withdrawa1300
check1393
stayc1440
stopc1440
acheckc1450
dead1602
deaden1661
in1825
still1850
the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > bring to a standstill
astintc700
stinta1330
arrestc1374
stopc1440
stowc1440
stote1489
to pull up1623
to draw up1765
halt1805
to bring to a standstill1809
snub1841
paralyse1933
the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > cause to be arrested or intercepted in progress
warna1250
foreclosec1290
dit1362
stayc1440
stopc1440
set1525
suppress1547
bar1578
frontier1589
stay1591
intercepta1599
to cut off1600
interpose1615
lodgea1616
obstruct1621
stifle1629
sufflaminate1656
stick1824
to hold up1887
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/2 Stoppyn, or wythe stondynge a beest of goynge or rennynge, sisto, obsto.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxxxiii. 308/2 But they were nat men ynowe to stoppe theym their way.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 736/2 I stoppe a thefe that is ronnyng a waye, je arreste. Stoppe the thefe for Godes sake.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. A4 If I muster and traine my men a newe, that the enemies of God..may be stopt of theyr passage and driuen backe.
1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 33 In case I be aduertised of a purpose in any to goe beyond the sea to fight, I may haue granted his Maiesties writ of Ne exeat regnum to stoppe him.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 315 The Prince..sending before some Horse, which should hinder and stop the Enemy, at the Passage over the Maes.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 82 A Cardinal stops his Coach to another that is his Senior.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1660 (1955) III. 259 Going to Lond:.. My Lord Majors shew stop'd me in cheape-side.
1714 J. Swift Imit. Hor. Sat. ii. vi. 111 I'm stopp'd by all the Fools I meet, And catechis'd in ev'ry street.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 41 We found our fingers stopped by that lucid Substance.
1761 London Chron. 24–26 Dec. 622/2 Thursday night three highwaymen stopped several waggons on Northall Common.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 218 The catheter..appeared to be stopt by the neck of the bladder.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. ii. 20 Tressilian and his attendants were stopped and questioned repeatedly by centinels.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiii. 164 I was at length stopped by the dislocated ice.
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia v. 97 The common belief that the scales of a crocodile will stop a bullet is very erroneous.
1876 J. W. Barry Railway Appliances 293 The responsibility of stopping a train in all other emergencies is given without question to the engine-driver.
1901 T. R. Glover Life & Lett. 4th Cent. vii. 157 To declare war on him, means to stop the corn-ships at once.
b. stop thief! a cry for help to arrest a running thief. Also slang (see quot. 1857).
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > under arrest [phrase] > cry for help to arrest thief
stop thief!1714
hot beef1861
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > article of > specific
deadman1764
stop thief!1857
prat poke1924
1714 A. Smith Hist. Lives Highway-men (ed. 2) I. 67 He espy'd Cox,..and crying out Stop Thief, he was apprehended in St. Clement's Church-Yard.
1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 579/1 I had not gone far from the house, when I heard behind me the cry of, Stop thief!
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 20 Stop Thief, meat stolen. ‘I have got this piece of stop thief.’ I stole this piece of raw meat. Th[ieves].
1887 Times 26 Aug. 10/2 Prosecutor having called out ‘stop thief’ he was apprehended.
c. To bring down (a bird) with the gun. Also, to arrest the rush of (a charging enemy or wild beast) with rifle-fire. (Said also of the bullet and of the wound produced.) Also, to hit (game).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot game [verb (transitive)] > bring down by shot
stop1845
grass1871
plaster1883
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by shooting
shootc893
shootc1275
to blow away1523
carry1653
to shoot (a person) down1845
stop1845
blow1871
ventilate1875
Maxim1894
poop1917
to blow apart1920
smoke1926
clip1927
cowboy1941
zap1942
Sten-gun1949
to light up1967
slot1987
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > shoot (a person or thing)
shoot1617
to bird off1688
to knock downa1744
to pick off1745
pop1762
drill1808
plug1833
perforate1838
slap1842
stop1845
pot1860
spot1882
plunk1888
pip1900
souvenir1915
poop1917
spray1922
smoke1926
zap1942
crack1943
pot-shoot1969
1845 Punch 25 Jan. 46/2 Out they [sc. the hares] rushed from every quarter—so many—that it was often impossible to ‘stop’ more than one out of half-a-dozen.
1862 W. P. Lennox Recreat. Sportsm. I. 151 At the first [pigeon-shooting] handicap Moncrieff stopped a bird at seventy-five yards.
1892 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. (ed. 5) 208 An 8-bore [rifle] will frequently fail to stop the charge.
1896 Times 16 Dec. 5/2 The task of making a Lee-Metford bullet which, without losing its ranging powers, should still inflict a wound sufficiently severe to stop even the most determined fanatics.
1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum xxxiii. 285 The officer assailed put a man-stopping revolver bullet into him, but it did not stop him.
d. Fencing, Pugilism, etc. To check (an adversary, his stroke, weapon, etc.) with a counter movement or stroke; to counter (a blow, a manœuvre in wrestling, etc.). Also to stop short.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fight a person [verb (transitive)] > check adversary
stop1713
1713 T. Parkyns Inn-play 9 [Wrestling.] Then go to the Flying Mare, and if he stops that, give him your Elbow under his Chin.
1765 D. Angelo School of Fencing (ed. 2) 26 You may stop his blade short, by keeping your wrist [etc.].
1771 A. Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 82 Make a stamp with your foot, and thrust forward at me; thus you stop me.
1771 A. Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 83 Then finish in a Quarte-over-the-arm in like manner with a Stop. Thus you stop in Low Quarte.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 214 Stop a blow, (ring), to prevent its alighting on the part intended by means of the guard, or position of defence, i.e. the fore-arm or elbow.
1840 D. Walker Defensive Exercises 14 [Wrestling.] It is sometimes possible to stop the hipe by clapping the knees instantly together.
1840 D. Walker Defensive Exercises 67 [Single-stick.] The usual blow at the head... To stop this, raise the hand a little.
1889 A. Hutton Cold Steel 34 The vertical cut 7, if given at the head, should be stopped by the Head parry.
e. colloquial (originally Military). To be hit by (a bullet). Phrases to stop one: to be hit or killed; to stop a packet: see to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet at packet n. 1f.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > be wounded
to let the sun shine through (oneself)1679
Pepper Alley1820
to stop one1901
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile > be hit by (a bullet)
stop1901
1901 Boy's Own Paper 5 Oct. 14/2 After the battle of Spion Kop, one man, who was hit in seven places, said that he had stopped a whole volley himself.
1915 Sphere 6 Nov. 144/1 A man's troubles begin rather than end when he ‘stops’ a German or Turkish bullet.
1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box clxxxiv. 213 Poor boy, I do so hope he manages not to ‘stop one’—which is what being hit is called here.
1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning i. xiii. 152 If I hadn't thought of that head-crashing dodge, I think I might have stopped a bullet.
1933 H. Walpole Vanessa iv. i. 682 Maurice stood there wishing that he might ‘stop one’ before he had to go over the top.
a1976 A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) v. ii. 234 You stop one, you've had it, and you've left behind a young widow.
f. To drink; usually in to stop one, to take a drink. Australian slang.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386
bibc1400
to kiss the cupa1420
drawa1500
refresh1644
mug1653
bub1654
jug1681
whiffle1693
dram1740
wet1783
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
stimulate1800
lush1811
taste1823
liquor1839
oil1841
paint1853
irrigate1856
nip1858
smile1858
peg1874
gargle1889
shicker1906
stop1924
bevvy1934
1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Stop one, to take a drink.
1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xxix. 279 Geary poured himself a drink. ‘Hi, Dick,’ he called, ‘could you stop one?’
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad x. 78 Then, jerking his finger knowingly, ‘I s'pose yer could stop one?’ I could. I needed that rum.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 835/2 Stop a pot, ‘to quaff ale,’ C. J. Dennis.
16. In certain games.† b. Cricket. (a) Of a batter: To play (a ball) defensively, without attempting to hit it away. Also absol. (b) absol. Of a fieldsman: To field the ball, to act as fieldsman. to stop behind, to act as longstop. Obsolete.
a. Real Tennis. (a) To keep off (the ball) from the dedans, winning-gallery, or grille. †(b) absol. ? To mark or record the stops or chases.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > play real tennis [verb (intransitive)] > act as marker
serve1511
stop1530
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > play real tennis [verb (transitive)] > types of play or stroke
stop1530
serve1564
serve1579
bandy1587
boast1878
(a)
(b)1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 737/1 I stoppe on ones syde, as one that is a stoppar in a tenes play or at the foote ball, je garde. I wyll stoppe on your syde.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxviiiv On saterday the kyng & the Emperor playd at tennice..against the princes of Orenge and the Marques of Brandenborow, & on the Princes syde stopped the Erle of Deuonshyre and the lorde Edmond on the other syde.1822 R. Lukin Treat. Tennis in J. Marshall Tennis (1878) 196 To stop the ball, that is, merely to prevent it entering the dedans, &c., is not sufficient.
1895 G. J. Manson Sporting Dict. Stop, to prevent (by a volley) a ball from entering an opening.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (intransitive)]
stop1744
scout1786
to watch out1786
field1798
to look out1836
to fag out1839
to seek out1840
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
take1578
stop1744
nip1752
block1772
drive1773
cut1816
draw1816
tip1816
poke1836
spoon1836
mow1844
to put up1845
smother1845
sky1849
crump1850
to pick up1851
pull1851
skyrocket1851
swipe1851
to put down1860
to get away1868
smite1868
snick1871
lift1874
crack1882
smack1882
off-drive1888
snip1890
leg1892
push1893
hook1896
flick1897
on-drive1897
chop1898
glance1898
straight drive1898
cart1903
edge1904
tonk1910
sweep1920
mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
tickle1963
square-cut1976
slash1977
splice1982
paddle1986
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (intransitive)] > field at specific position
to stop behind1831
long-stop1842
outfield1862
point1862
(a)
(b)1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 2 Expert to Bowl, to Run, to Stop, to Throw.1831 Laws of Cricket in New Sporting Mag. Aug. 297/2 No substitute in the field shall be allowed to..stop behind to a fast bowler.1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 29 How to stop a shooting-ball dropped short of a length... This backward movement will give you a better sight of the ball, and more time for stopping it.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 114 Every loose, hard hitter would learn to stop, and play as safe a game as possible.
1856 Househ. Words 2 Feb. 59/2 They cut a good deal oftener and stop much less, perhaps, than they used to do.
17. To intercept and detain in transit.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > in transit
intercept1548
to make stay of1572
surcept1579
waylay1600
stop1604
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. xxvi. 576 Where they continued many daies, stopping their victuals, nor suffering any to enter or issue forth.
1661 A. Marvell Let. 26 Mar. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 21 I haue yours of 22. I wish you had had mine too of 19. But all were stoppd.
1667 S. Sturmy Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. (1669) To Merchants n2b Your Goods have been seised..and Ships stopp'd and hindred in their Voyages.
18. indirect passive.1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Stoppages Soldiers are directed to be stopped one shilling and sixpence per week.† b. To deprive (a person) of his pay. Obsolete.
a. To withhold (a sum of money) in paying wages or other debt, on the ground of some counter-claim.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)] > withhold pay
stop1427
respite1802
1427 Coventry Leet Bk. 113 And þat hit be rered be þe comen seriant, or els þat hit be stopped vppon the hire of þe seid comen seriant.
1495–6 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 220 Item, payd to thomas Mundys,..wyche he stoppyth in his hondes in party payment that is owyng hym for nayll, the quitrent that belongyth to owre chyrch.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Resignatum æs, wages stopped for negligent seruice in warres.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. i. 20 And sir, do you meane to stop any of Williams wages, about the sacke he lost at Hunkly Faire? View more context for this quotation
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe iv. vii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Oo4/2 [Viola has broken a glass] Moth. Did you so? be sure I'le stop it, 'twill make a good gap in your quarters wages.
1668 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 61 Your Grace was pleased to order the said fees to be stopt in the hands of the King of Armes.
1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 63 Nor stops, for one bad Cork, his Butler's Pay.
1741 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 510 Since £1,500 out of the £2,500 said to be Expended has been stopt out of my support.
1832 Min. Evid. Comm. Factories Bill 203 They stop 1s. a week of every hand upon the premises.
1887 Spectator 9 July 932/1 A new kit was now supplied to him, and sixpence a day stopped out of his money to pay for it.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)] > withhold pay > suspend from pay or stop the wages of
stop1594
respite1642
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 sig. D4 Tis thought my lord, your grace..stopt the soldiers of their paie.
c. to stop it out: to save the cost of a thing by economizing in (something else). colloquial.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > be sparing or frugal [verb (intransitive)] > save > by economizing in something else
to stop it out1863
1863 D. M. Craik Mistress & Maid xii ‘It will do no harm to enquire the price. I might stop it out in omnibuses.’ For this was the way every new article of dress had to be procured—‘stopping it out’ of something else.
d. To withhold (goods) as security or in lieu of payment.
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1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 Chron. 123 An action brought against a carrier for stopping a goose..because the gentleman did not pay the porter a shilling for..carrying it to the gentleman's house.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. iii. 20 What do you think of Mrs. Green wanting to charge me for an extra week, because she says I didn't give her notice till Tuesday morning? I won't pay her, and she may stop my things if she dares.
19. To give instructions to a banker not to cash (a bank note, bill, or the like). Similarly to stop payment (of a note).
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society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > not pay [verb (transitive)] > stop payment
stop1713
stop1839
1713 London Gaz. No. 4619/11 It being stop'd at the Bank.
1722 Post Man 16–19 June 2/1 With several Notes in it, being of no Value to any but the Owner, Payment being stopt.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 26 They [sc. the bills] should be stopp'd.
1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences II. 194 The numbers of the notes were known, payment of them was stopped.
1892 W. G. Cordingley Commerc. Guide 63 To ‘stop’ a cheque, in cases where it has been lost or stolen, is to give written instructions to the banker it is drawn upon not to pay the cheque when presented.
20.
a. To cause (a person) to desist from or pause in a course of action or conduct. Const. from, in, †of; also with gerund as second object. Also to stop short, to check abruptly.Originally a figurative use of sense 15, often with reference to a metaphorical way or course.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to desist
ceasec1320
stint1338
stop1393
apausea1555
to knock off1651
surcease1791
to draw up1861
the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something
stinta1330
stop1393
intercept1545
blench1602
hain1636
screen1657
to break off1791
to turn off1822
to break one's fall1849
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > suddenly or abruptly (an action or person)
break1330
to break offc1340
to take up1530
to cut off1576
stunt1603
to cut up short1607
to cut short1611
pawl1797
to sew up1837
to stop short1837
burst1842
to pull up1861
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. v. 150 Mede..on men of lawe gan wynke, in sygne þat þei sholde, with som sotel speche Re~herce þo a-non ryght, þat myghte reson stoppe.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. G.iiiv It is a stray out of the way in which he would haue profited, had he not bene stopped in it.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H4v My L. it lyes not in Lorenzos power, To stop the vulgar liberall of their tongues.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. xi. 10 No man shall stop mee [margin., Gr. this boasting shal not be stopped in me.] of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. View more context for this quotation
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 319 What can be done to stop him from running headlong on ruin?
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. iii. 237 Your National Assembly, stopped short in its Constitutional labours, may, [etc.].
1917 N.E.D. at Stop Mod. I wish you would stop him circulating those rumours.
b. To cause (a person) to break off in narrative or speech. Const. from, in. Also to stop short.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking > cause to break off
stop1542
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Opprimere orationem alicuius, to stoppe one in his tale.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 198 I cannot speake enough of this content, It stops me heere. View more context for this quotation
?1697 J. Lewis Mem. Duke of Glocester (1789) 23 But when my Lady Governess..began to tell the Duke the sad news, he stopped her.
1784 P. Wright New Bk. Martyrs 795/2 He then was stopped from saying any more.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed ii, in Tales Crusaders II. 37 The chaplain had arrived at some convenient pause in the lecture, where the Archbishop stopt him with, Satis est, mi fili.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 121 ‘Yes, my lord; but——’ Garrow stopped him short. ‘Not one word more, sir, if you please.’
c. To cause (a thing) to cease action. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > cause (a thing) to cease action
stop1377
stintc1440
whoa1861
off1975
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 415 Was neuere werre in þis worlde..so kene Þat ne..pees þorw pacience, alle perilles stopped.
138. J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 360 And þus þe puple myȝte wiþdrawe þer almes fro wickide preestis, and þe pride of preestis shulde be stoppid, bi which þei envenemyn þe puple.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 14 From such a cause, as fills mine eyes with teares, And stops my tongue. View more context for this quotation
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iv. 36 Hold, stop your murd'ring hands.
1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal iv I fortunately came in and stopped her hand.
21. † b. Law. To bar, hinder, preclude. Const. from, to with infinitive = estop v. 2. Obsolete.
a. To restrain or prevent (a person) from a contemplated action. Const. as in 20.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > specifically from doing something
conclude1382
restrain1384
refraina1398
keepa1400
to coart of1430
revokec1450
stop1488
contain1523
retract1548
stay1560
retire1567
straiten1622
confine1651
obligec1661
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > from an action, purpose, etc.
warnc888
withseta1330
defendc1330
conclude1382
privea1387
retainc1415
refrain1442
prohibit1483
repel1483
stop1488
sever?1507
discourage1528
seclude?1531
prevent1533
foreclose1536
lock1560
stay1560
disallow1568
intercept1576
to put bya1586
crossa1616
stave1616
prevent1620
secure1623
stave1630
riot1777
tent1781
footer1813
to stop off1891
mozz1941
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 154 He leit no word than walk off his passage Or Inglismen had stoppit him his wiage.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 737/1 I stoppe, I hynder or let one of any purpose that he is about, je empesche.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 189 Now, from the Oracle They will bring all, whose spirituall counsaile had Shall stop, or spurre me. View more context for this quotation
?1697 J. Lewis Mem. Duke of Glocester (1789) 22 I was ordered..to go..for Dr. Radcliffe,..but Mr. Pierce..told them he was in no danger, and we were stopt.
1801 J. Thomson Poems Sc. Dial. 15 So whan ye find yoursells incline To steal a rag,..O! stop yoursells o' that design.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xxxix. 69 If any one likes to go, nobody will stop them.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert vii. 66 He was about to place the chair near to that of the lady,..but Jim stopped him.
a1917 Mod. Why didn't you stop him sending that letter?
1951 M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael ii. iii. 94 You..make an entrance if you like. I'm not stopping you.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 23/2 (advt.) Make the break with Tradition. What's to stop you? Certainly not the price.
1973 R. Thomas If you can't be Good (1974) xx. 180 ‘I wanta see Connie Mizelle,’ he said. ‘What's stopping you?’ ‘Not a damn thing,’ he said. ‘Let's go.’
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)]
forbidc1000
forrunc1275
forbar1303
before-comec1384
withstanda1400
withholdc1400
prevenec1485
supprime1490
interrupt1497
resist?a1513
prevent1522
discourage1528
prohibit1531
stop1534
forleta1555
bar1559
to bar by and main1567
disbar1567
to cut off1576
embar1577
forestall1579
obvent1588
cancel1594
waylay1625
suppress1651
antevene1655
arceate1657
exarceate1657
interpel1722
stump1858
estop1876
plug1887
pre-empt1957
deter1961
1534 tr. Lyndewode's Constit. Prouincialles 39 b The free testament makynge is let and the chyrche, & other aboue named, be malyciously stopped from theyr ryght.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 563 Iohn to stop Arthurs Title in the whole, Hath willingly departed with a part. View more context for this quotation
1691 in Further Evid. Nairne Peerage (1874) 141 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. D) XII. 199 And all others perills burdens dangers and inconveniences..which may anywayes stop trouble or prejudge them in the peaceable possession thereof.
c.
(a) To stay, suspend (proceedings); to prevent (a decree, etc.) from taking effect.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > stay or suspend proceedings
abatec1325
to put in suspense1421
stint1491
stay1525
bar1552
sist1635
stop1690
1690 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 165 Where any Act, Decreet or Protestation being pronounced, without Debate in the Cause, is thereafter stopped upon Application of one of the Parties.
1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 126 An Inhibition is issued from the Superior Court to the Inferior, to stop Proceedings.
(b) to stop the show (originally U.S.); to cause an interruption of a performance by provoking prolonged applause or laughter, or requests for encores. Cf. showstopper n., showstopping adj. 1
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > appear as performer [verb (intransitive)] > stop the show
to stop the show1926
1926 Amer. Speech 1 437/1 When an act proves to be such a wow that it is forced to respond to encore after encore and the remainder of the acts on the program must wait until the audience will allow them to go on, it is said to ‘stop the show cold’.
1933 Fortune Aug. 92/1 Jim Europe had stopped the show with St. Louis Blues.
1957 R. Hart-Davis Let. 19 May in Lyttelton–Hart-Davis Lett. (1979) II. 103 The Gibbon quotation stopped the show long enough for me to consult my scrappy notes.
1966 ‘M. Renault’ Mask of Apollo vi. 107 This line, as I had feared it might, stopped the show.
1977 Times 13 June 15/4 The Merchant of Venice [was] performed by the Ibadan Boys' Grammar School... A British widower['s]..son..was cast as the Prince of Morocco. His opening line stopped the show: ‘Mislike me not for my complexion—.’
d. To give a still picture of (a moving object).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > give still picture of
stop1937
1937 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 8 Aug. 3 The camera ‘stops’ the action of a chorus in training.
1937 Discovery Nov. 353/1 Anyone can find a gannet, and any shutter working to 1/500 sec. will ‘stop’ it.
1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 161 On Alexander's [tomb] the monster has been ‘stopped’, as the photographers say, in the act of shooting up from the doorway leading into the vault.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (transitive)]
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amarOE
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stopc1380
withstandc1385
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to hold abackc1440
appeachc1460
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trip1548
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dam1582
to clip the wings ofa1593
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straiten1607
rub1608
impediment1610
impedea1616
to put out1616
to put off1631
scote1642
obstruct1645
incommodiate1650
offend1651
sufflaminate1656
hindrance1664
disassist1671
clog1679
muzzle1706
squeeze1804
to take the wind out of the sails of1822
throttle1825
block1844
overslaugh1853
snag1863
gum1901
slow-walk1965
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 159 Where worldly prestis schullen for here..ydelnesse & pride stoppe cristene men to knowe god.
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 178 For this wee see welle every day at eye, Geftes and festes stopene oure pollicye.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 25 Puttyng in exercyse many honest & vertuse affectys of mannys mynd, wych els schold be..stoppyd & let by penury & poverty.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 35 What blacke magitian coniures vp this fiend, To stop deuoted charitable deedes? View more context for this quotation
1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 105 The Dutch, say they, will strive your plot to stap.
23.
a. To cause to cease, put an end to (a movement, activity, course of events).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
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to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
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removec1405
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surceasec1435
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adetermine1483
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stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
1426 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 7 I wot not whether it were best in any sermon or other audience..to declare aught of þis matier in stoppyng of þe noyse þat renneth in þis case.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riii But stoppe it [sc. suspicion] betyme and suffre it neuer to growe to iudgement.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10105 But Pollexena..Abated the bremmes in his bale yre, And stoppet the strif of his strong hert.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 337 Quhilk wold give the Southland men aneuche ado, and stop thair cuming heir.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 40 For God's sake stop the grunting of those Pigs!
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate v But I stopped her doubts, by assuring her it had been part and pendicle thereof in my forefathers' time.
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. 158 Gurney overheard one juryman say to another, ‘Don't you think we had better stop the case? It is useless to go on.’
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iii. ix. §2 28 Even if this small annual supply were stopt entirely.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xviii. 193 In plain English, it is murder, and it must be stopped at any cost. You understand?
b. To prevent the coming-on of.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > obviate > prevent the occurrence of or avert
werec925
withsitc1300
shun1338
to turn awaya1382
forfend1382
declinec1430
stopa1538
divert1548
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withturn1563
antevert1583
avert1586
pervert1594
deprive1627
averruncate1663
stave1664
to stop off1891
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 120 Of thys we must have regard and stoppe al occasyon therof as much as we may.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ii. 103 With thousand doubts How I might stop this tempest ere it came. View more context for this quotation
1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 5 I..popped my shaving brush into Mr. Bar's mouth—a capital way to stop angry answers.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. viii. 56 It was only with difficulty that Seneca and Burrus had been able to stop more tragedies.
24.
a. To cease from, discontinue (an action, employment, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
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blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
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to leave offa1382
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respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
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supersede1499
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to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxvii. 306 b/2 Whan they had this warnynge they stopped their commyng to the kyng.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 54 Stop thy vnhallowed toyle vile Mountague. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 69 Turne head, and stop pursuit. View more context for this quotation
1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 ii. 539/1 Barley was so dear that brewers had stopped brewing.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 168 Prithee, stop thy gambling cant for one instant.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 606 I say I will not have it: and Dobbin, I beg, Sir, you'll stop it.
1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 208 The blackbird picking food Sees thee, nor stops his meal, nor fears at all.
1860 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells 343 The clock stopped striking.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 66 Nobody should be allowed suddenly to stop work in a way endangering other people.
b. to stop payment: to declare oneself unable to meet one's financial obligations. Also in shortened form to stop.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > stop payment
to stop payment1766
to shut up1841
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxi. 479 It has been determined expressly, that a banker's stopping or refusing payment is no act of bankruptcy.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 181 But what will that be to the news that Osbaldistone and Tresham have stopped!
1864 C. E. L. Riddell George Geith III. xxxv. 29 The bank has stopped payment.
1879 J. Ruskin Let. 31 Oct. in Wks. (1908) XXXIV. 238 Written contracts are all very well, but if the contractor stops payment—where are you?
1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 40 The house mentioned in yours of the 3rd inst. is daily expected to stop payment.
c. To put an end to the issue of (an allowance).
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society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > not pay [verb (transitive)] > stop payment
stop1713
stop1839
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby viii. 72 She has..stopped his..pocket-money.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxvi Suppose, sir, that I was..to stop your allowance?
25. To cause (a machine or piece of mechanism) to cease working or going. to stop the press: to suspend the operation of printing (esp. in order to give opportunity to make some insertion).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > cause (a thing) to cease action > specifically a machine or mechanism
stop1538
to set off1728
to run down1840
society > communication > printing > [verb (intransitive)] > interrupt run
to stop the press1703
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Sufflamen, that wherwith a whiele is retained or stopped of his course.
1703 D. Defoe Let. Nov. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 15th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Duke of Portland (1897) IV. 76 in Parl. Papers (C. 8497) XLIX. 1 I shall continue to stop the press in this case till I hear your opinion.
1765 I. Bickerstaff Maid of Mill i. i Stop the mill there; and..hoist yon sacks of flour upon this cart lad.
1815 Morning Chron. 22 June 3/2 We stop the press to announce the most brilliant and complete Victory ever obtained by the Duke of Wellington.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 237 To stop the engine, the cocks at K and Y should be shut.
1860 Brit. Patent 450 1 Mechanism..for stopping and starting watches.
1883 M. P. Bale Saw-mills 32 A new method of stopping engines by electricity.
26. To arrest the oscillation, vibration, or unsteady motion of; to keep immovable or steady.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > arrest oscillation of
stop1669
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xxix. 42 Let a stander by stop one end of a Thred on the Glass at D.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 78 The Piece to be Mounted higher or lower, until you bring the Bead..and the Mark all in one Line, stop the Piece in that position with a Coyn.
27. Music. To press down (a string of a violin, lute, and the like) with the finger (rarely with a key) in order to shorten its vibrating length and thereby produce certain intermediate sounds; hence, to produce (a note, sound) by this means; to use (a finger) for this purpose. Also with down.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > stop string
stopc1500
c1500 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1809) IV. 406 In myddest of the body [of the Lute] the stryngis sowndith best, For stoppide in the freytes they abydeth the pynnes wrest.
1574 F. Kinwelmersh tr. A. Le Roy Briefe Instr. Musicke Lute f. 64 v Thou muste also vnderstande, how, and with whiche fingers the strynges of the Lute must be stopped.
1574 F. Kinwelmersh tr. A. Le Roy Briefe Instr. Musicke Lute f. 68 b The first .C. of the first stoppe..must be stopped with the seconde finger.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §156 In Lutes, and Instruments of Strings, if you stop a String high..the Sound is more Treble.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 84 Then be ready to stop down (β,) with the Fore-finger.
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 85 After your Stopt Note..you are not to take up that Finger, which you last Stopt, until necessity require.
1784 Brit. Patent 1449 (1856) 3 The manner of stopping the British lyre is..peculiar to the instrument, which instead of being stopped by the fingers..is stopped and the tone given by small keys.
1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony i. 8 An instrument such as the violin whose notes are stopped by the fingers.
28. Nautical.
a. To bring (a ship) to anchor by gradually checking the cable. to stop the cable: to prevent it running out too fast. stop her! see quot. 1867; also, on small steamers and motor-boats, the command to stop the engine.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor > check the cable
to stop the cable1627
stop her!1834
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > bring to stop by checking cable
stop1627
society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propelling boat other than by sail or oars [interjection] > order to stop engines
stop her!1834
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 31 To stop is when you come to an Anchor, and veares out your Cable, but by degrees till the Ship ride well, then they say stop the Ship.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 101 When they come to an Anchor, and have let run-out as much..of Cabell..as will make the ship ride, or that the ship be in a current, where it is best to stop her a little by degrees, then they say, Stopp the ship; and so hold~fast the Cabell, and then veere-out a little more, and so stopp her fully, to let her ride.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 103 The use of them [sc. stoppers] is chiefly..to stopp the cabels, when they come to an Anchor, that it may goe-out by little and little.
1775 A. Dalrymple Coll. Voy. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 404 At noon, close reefed top-sails, stopt the cable, and came to sail.
1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 6 The word of command, ‘Stop her!’ was loudly vociferated by a bluff, short, Dirk Hatteraick-looking pilot.
1841 Punch 1 35 The dirty lad below, whose exclamation of ‘Ease her—stop her—one turn ahead’—may one day be destined to give the word of command on the quarter deck.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stop Her!, an order to check the cable in being payed out.
b. to stop the tide: to prevent the ship being carried with the tide.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > [verb (intransitive)] > prevent ship being carried with tide
to stop the tide1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 To Tide ouer to a place, is to goe ouer with the Tide of ebbe or flood, and stop the contrary by anchoring till the next Tide.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/7 We came to an Anchor to stop the Flood.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4431/15 They have anchor'd and stop'd the Tide.
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage ii. 25 We were obliged to stop the tide off Port Kale.
c. To tie up with thin rope. Also to stop up.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > tie up
trice?a1400
stopper1769
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1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 191 The maintop-mast back stay, to which the chain is stopped, to prevent its swinging about.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. 121 It is advisable to bend the cable..to the crown of the anchor, stopping it with spun-yarn to the ring.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 50 How are the footropes fitted? With a cut splice, being stopped out on each side to the guys.
29. Horticulture. To pinch out the head of (a plant); to remove (a shoot or a portion of it) by pinching. Also to stop back.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > pinch out or off
cropc1420
to pinch off1654
pinch1693
stop1699
strangulate1835
1699 L. Meager New Art of Gardening 66 August... Release and unbind the Buds you have Inoculated, if they have taken; prune and stop them.
1794 J. MacPhail Treat. Culture Cucumber 67 When the seedling plants have one or two joints, I stop them, after which they generally put forth two shoots.
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xiv. 252 Stopping the plants, is to be performed about a week before they leave the seed bed.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 495 To concentrate the vigour of the plant, the shoots are stopped repeatedly as they advance in growth.
1849 Florist 256 Stop back young plants that have been struck this season.
30. Architecture. To cause (a rib, shaft, chamfer, etc.) to terminate (in a specified form or position).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [verb (transitive)] > terminate in specific form
stop1835
1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 97 Sometimes, however, the diagonal ribs are stopped by corbels near their imposts.
1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 98 The vaulting shafts are all stopped before they reach the ground.
1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 36 The flutes are stopt square, and not as usual rounded at the ends.
31. Bird-catching. To subject (a call-bird) to a process which causes it to moult prematurely. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (transitive)] > decoy
stop1768
stool1842
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 332 We have been lately informed by an experienced bird-catcher, that he pursues a cooler regimen in stopping his birds.
32. Phonetics. To check the flow of (breath or voice) in articulation. Cf. stopped adj. 7.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [verb (transitive)] > stop
stop1867
1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 12 In forming Consonants, the breath or voice is stopped or squeezed, with an effect of percussion, sibilation, buzzing, or vibration, in some part of the guttural or oral passage.
33. Technical uses with adverbs.(b)1838 J. Robinson in Newton's London Jrnl. (1840) 16 63 Certain apparatus, by which I stop out or protect any desired portions of the cloth or fabric, whilst it is under the operation of dyeing.1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 214/2 [Electrotyping.] The mould is next ‘stopped out’, by brushing liquid wax on those portions of the frame and wax upon which no deposition is intended to take place.
a. transitive. to stop down. To reduce the aperture of (a lens) by means of the stops. Also absol. and intransitive for passive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > reduce aperture
to stop down1892
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)] > adjust equipment
to stop down1892
couple1934
to wind on1947
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. p. cxxiii The Lenses..will work full aperture for portraits and groups, and when stopped down a little, will produce landscape and architectural photos.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 21 The sharpness of the picture can..be greatly improved by the simple expedient of ‘stopping down’.
1971 P. Purser Holy Father's Navy xiv. 75 Can you stop down to make it look like dusk?
1978 SLR Camera Aug. 46/1 As the lens is focused through these various degrees of magnification the lens automatically stops down.
b. transitive. to stop off (a) In Moulding, to adapt (a mould) to a new design by shortening or obliterating some part of it; also reflexive of a mould. (b) In Etching, Electroplating, etc.: = to stop out at sense 33d.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > undergo manufacturing processes [verb (reflexive)] > of mould: adapt to new design
to stop off1843
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > etch > protect specific parts from acid
to stop out1815
to stop off1907
(a)
(b)1856 G. Gore Pract. Chem. 77 Many articles which are to receive deposits require to have portions of their surface ‘stopped off’, to prevent the deposit spreading over those parts.1907 Edinb. Rev. July 233 The lines of an etching may be darkened or again ‘stopped off’.1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 354 If the pattern be too long, or that it be temporarily desired to obliterate some few parts, the mould is made of the full size and stopped-off.
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 53 We make a special box to fill up the print as well as to core the hole out, or, in brief, to ‘stop itself off.’
c. to stop off = senses 21a, 23b, 24a. Now rare or Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > from an action, purpose, etc.
warnc888
withseta1330
defendc1330
conclude1382
privea1387
retainc1415
refrain1442
prohibit1483
repel1483
stop1488
sever?1507
discourage1528
seclude?1531
prevent1533
foreclose1536
lock1560
stay1560
disallow1568
intercept1576
to put bya1586
crossa1616
stave1616
prevent1620
secure1623
stave1630
riot1777
tent1781
footer1813
to stop off1891
mozz1941
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > obviate > prevent the occurrence of or avert
werec925
withsitc1300
shun1338
to turn awaya1382
forfend1382
declinec1430
stopa1538
divert1548
refract1563
withturn1563
antevert1583
avert1586
pervert1594
deprive1627
averruncate1663
stave1664
to stop off1891
1891 W. B. Yeats Let. 21 Jan. (1954) i. 162 Ellis..may do some of my chapters himself... Providence has stopped off his terrible activity for the present with twelve lectures for the University Extension.
1892 W. B. Yeats Lett. (1954) ii. 201 I helped to stop off another man of learning the other day who came trying to get a book from Unwin to do.
1902 H. James Wings of Dove vii. xxv. 382 Having suffered him to insist almost convicted her of indelicacy. Why hadn't she stopped him off?
1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 47 Stop that row, Tommy... Stop it off.
1929 T. E. Lawrence Let. 22 July (1938) 666 Dirty Dogs, they have stopped off poor Trotsky.
d. transitive. to stop out (a) In Etching, to obliterate or cover with a varnish (the marks, lines, or other parts of a plate which are to be kept from the acid in the process of biting in). Also absol. (b) In Electrotyping, Calico-printing, etc.: see quots.
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1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 548 If any scratches..or mistakes be committed in the etchings, they are to be stopped out.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 775 If any parts require to be stopt out, use turpentine-varnish and lamp-black, and with a camel's hair-brush pass over those parts you consider of sufficient depth.
1871 P. G. Hamerton Etcher's Handbk. 78 Bracquemond..stopped-out sixty times, in order to get sixty degrees of depth in his lines.
1892 Temple Bar Sept. 56 The lettering of plates may be stopped-out or burnished away or covered up for the striking off of misleading impressions.
e. transitive. to stop over. In Moulding: see quot. 1885.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > types of shaping process > adapt mould
to stop off1855
to stop over1885
1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making 53 ‘Stopping-over’ means filling up the upper portion of the print level with the face of the mould, after the core has been placed in position.
III. To come to a stand, cease to move or act.
34. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vii. 67 [The king dies.] Hen. Euen so must I run on, and euen so stop . View more context for this quotation
a. intransitive. To cease from onward movement, to come to a stand or position of rest. More emphatically to stop dead, stop short (see dead adv. 1b, short adv.). Said of a person or other living creature, also of an inanimate thing driven or propelled.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > come to a stand or stop
abideOE
atstandc1000
steveneta1225
atstuntc1230
to make, take, etc., stallc1275
stema1300
astandc1314
withstanda1325
stintc1374
arrestc1400
stotec1400
stayc1440
steadc1475
stop short1530
disadvance1610
come1611
consist1611
check1635
halt1656
to bring to1697
to draw up1767
to bring up1769
to pull up1781
to fetch up1838
to come to a standstill1852
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 736/2 I stoppe, as a horse or cart doth, whan they be goyng on the way, je jocque.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 38 After him came spurring hard, A gentleman..That stopt by me to breathe his bloudied horse. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love iv. i. 41 As some faint Pilgrim..Sometimes resolv'd to fetch his leap; and then Runs to the Bank, but there stops short agen.
1709 Tatler No. 114. ⁋1 I saw a Coach stop at my Door.
1736 T. Gray Let. 8 May in Corr. T. Gray & W. Mason (1853) 3 Sure flew the disc from his unerring hand, Nor stopp'd till it had cut the further strand.
1770 R. Cumberland West Indian i. vi Stop, stay a little, Charles, whither are you going in such haste?
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. v. 116 He again paced the room in silence, stopped, filled, and drank a cup of wine.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xii. 294 Pulling the reins with all his might, and ejaculating, ‘Stop! stop!’
1852 F. S. Williams Our Iron Roads x. 227 On a train stopping, or travelling slowly through an intermediate station.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xii Sebastian Cabota,..being in want of provisions, stopped short at the mouth of that mighty South American river.
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xv. 169 All of a sudden, however, the jackal stopped dead for a second, and then made off out of sight.
b. spec. of a horse: See quot. 1679.
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?1575 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte Ryding ii. ii. D viij b The horse by this meanes learneth .iii. lessons at once,..firste to tread the ringe, secondly to stop, and thirdly to turne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. i. 32 It is a Creature that I teach to fight, To winde, to stop, to run directly on. View more context for this quotation
1679 A. Lovell tr. F. Pomey Indiculus Universalis 215 To stop a Horse is, to make him stay short on his buttocks... That Horse stops well.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 The Lapythæ..taught the Steed to bound;..To stop, to fly, the Rules of War to know. View more context for this quotation
c. To pause, stay on the or one's way (to do something). Also to stop short.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)]
restOE
pause1440
breathe1485
interpausea1535
respett1561
to take pausement1599
intermita1604
to turn down a (also the, this, etc.) leaf1633
interspire1647
suspend1650
stop1711
to hang up1845
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶9 He stopt short at the Coach, to ask us how far the Judges were behind us.
1825 W. Scott Talisman ix, in Tales Crusaders III. 225 The Baron, however, was a little later of entering the tent.., stopping, perchance, to issue some orders.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxvii. 406 You've been stopping to over all the posts in Bristol, you idle young scamp!
1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera III. xxx. 10 It seemed to him that everybody stopped as they passed, to look at his cart.
35.
a. To make a halt on a journey, esp. to halt and remain for rest and refreshment. Of a coach, train, boat, or other public conveyance: To halt at a specified place to pick up and set down passengers, etc.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go on a journey > break one's journey > at specific place (coaches, etc.)
to call in1643
stop1743
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > journey [verb (intransitive)] > make a break in a journey
call1642
to call in1643
halt1656
stop1743
off-saddle1823
to stop over1855
night-stop1951
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 107 The greatest Part of the People must be oblig'd, at every Place we stop, to go on Shore in Search of Provisions.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. x. 341 The postillions stopped at the convent..to take up Blanche.
1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 295 The vessel not being allowed to stop over tomorrow.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 229 It was at the door of this overgrown tavern, that the London coach stopped, at the same hour every evening.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 677 Thence he travelled to London, stopping by the road at the mansions of some great lords.
1856 I. L. Bird Englishwoman in Amer. 160 While stopping at a station another lady entered.
1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxiii. 235 We..marched on..until we reached the old shed, where we had stopped three days before.
b. to stop over: to make a halt (at a place) and proceed by a later conveyance. Similarly to stop off. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go on a journey > break one's journey
call1642
to lay over1817
to stop over1855
to break one's journey1880
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > journey [verb (intransitive)] > make a break in a journey
call1642
to call in1643
halt1656
stop1743
off-saddle1823
to stop over1855
night-stop1951
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > types of shaping process > adapt mould
to stop off1855
to stop over1885
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover and protect > in other specific manner
shoe1639
flask1707
to stop off1855
sheet1857
1855 Knickerbocker 46 604 He had ‘stopped off’, he said, to see a friend.
1857 M. J. Holmes Meadow-Brook xvi. 182 Wishing to see a friend of his who lives here, we have stopped over one train.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxiv. 218 Once when you renewed your ticket after stopping over in Baltimore.
1884 Sir J. W. Dawson in Handbk. Canada 86 By stopping over at Dalhousie..the following localities may be visited.
1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 437/2 I stopped off overnight to see about something for a friend.
1897 Outing 29 563/2 Yet would I counsel the traveler whose way lies by Avignon to stop off, if only for an hour, in order to ascend the Rocher des Doms.
1913 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 98/2 It was arranged that the party should ‘stop off’ at a small place..on the main line, and should thence by motor ‘side track’..to another small town.
1925 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?7 Nov. (1962) 864 It is great fun stopping off in Switzerland to see you.
1952 M. Laski Village xii. 173 ‘Shall we stop off soon and eat our lunch?’ asked Roy and at the next field-gate they dismounted.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 244 Stopping off after court for an early liquid lunch.
1971 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 10 Many people suffer from jet fatigue and on long-distance routes often go to the additional expense of stopping over somewhere on the way to recuperate.
c. to stop over: to remain on the side to which one has travelled; to settle down across the sea. U.S.
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1909 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 5/2 New industries will be created, and older ones will be developed as the wealthy men of the old country ‘stop over’.
d. to stop in: to pay a brief visit, ‘drop in’. U.S.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally
to call in1573
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to come round1620
to go round1636
to put in1668
to go around1742
to happen in1749
to run in and out1779
to come around1822
to pop in and out1846
to happen in with1883
to stop in1904
stop1905
1904 Dial. Notes 2 421 Stop in, vb. i., to call. ‘I stopped in at his house one day.’
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xxxvi. 402 He stopped in, not at all sure that on this first occasion he would be able to broach the dangerous subject.
1953 J. Cheever in New Yorker 22 Aug. 23/2 He was rude to his friends when they stopped in for a drink.
1963 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 Oct. 459/1 He was found dead in his crib by a family friend who had stopped in at the home.
1979 Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. (Suppl.) cn17/3 Classmates are eagerly invited to stop in!
e. With by: (a) as adv., = sense 35d above; (b) as prep., to call at, visit (a place). Originally U.S.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > visit a place > in the course of travel
to fetch in1565
to take in1622
dropa1634
stop1905
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally
to call in1573
to drop in1609
to look ina1616
to come round1620
to go round1636
to put in1668
to go around1742
to happen in1749
to run in and out1779
to come around1822
to pop in and out1846
to happen in with1883
to stop in1904
stop1905
1905 Dial. Notes 3 96 Stop by, v. phr., to call, to visit. ‘I believe I'll stop by and see Bud.’
1923 Dail. Notes 5 244 Stop by, v. phr., to visit. ‘Stop by my house.’
1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial v. 172 They were going to stop by for her.
1943 T. Pratt Barefoot Mailman i. 11 I picked him up when I stopped by at St. Augustine.
1953 N. Gordimer Lying Days ii. v. 48 It was Ludi, he would stop by at the old Plaskett's on the way to say hullo—.
1957 New Yorker 2 Nov. 89/3 Don't wait..stop by your favorite shop and try one today.
1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 8 Apr. (1970) 103 I had asked Mrs. MacArthur and her son..to stop by the White House to warm up and have a cup of tea.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 20 I mentioned that Gloria would probably be stopping by later on.
36.
a. (Cf. stay v.1 8, which is often preferred as more correct.) To remain, prolong one's stay in a place; to stay (to dinner, at home, with a person). Also to with infinitive, and quasi-transitive, to remain for (a ceremony, a meal, etc.).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go
bidec893
yleaveOE
leaveOE
wonc1000
abideOE
worthOE
beliveOE
atstutte-nc1220
stuttea1225
atstuntc1230
astinta1250
beleavea1325
lasta1325
stounda1325
stinta1340
joukc1374
restaya1382
to leave over1394
liec1400
byec1425
onbidec1430
keep1560
stay1575
delay1655
to wait on1773
stop1801
to sit on1815
to hang around1830
to stick around1878
to sit tight1897
remain1912
stay-down1948
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 123 If your Honour and you, Madam, will stop to dinner with us.
1805 T. Moore Mem. (1853) I. 181 Now, by stopping in town to-morrow, I shall..get off the necessity of returning to town so soon as I otherwise should do.
1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 254 Let him [come up alone and] go into your rooms, and do stop in Devonshire a good while.
1832 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 275 Did I consult my wishes I should stop at home.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vii. 373 I never stop the Sacrament... I've never been confirmed.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. xv. 299 But you'll stop and take a bit of dinner with us?
1864 C. E. L. Riddell George Geith II. xxi. 88 The butler..went straight off to Granny, and gave her notice; and she actually raised his wages, and prayed him to stop.
1898 H. R. Haggard Dr. Therne 10 I could stop in Mexico for three months.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xix. 94 I am sure the society at Lucerne would have bored me if I had stopped much longer.
b. With adverbs, as away, out. to stop on, to continue in one place or employment. to stop up, to remain ‘up’ at one's college or university; colloquial, to sit up instead of going to bed. to stop out: spec. North American, to interrupt one's higher education for a time in order to pursue some other activity.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be or remain at a distance [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw to a distance > stay away or not go to
stop1815
society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [verb (transitive)] > remain at one's college or university
to stop up1815
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > etch > protect specific parts from acid
to stop out1815
to stop off1907
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > intentionally
watchc1000
to sit upc1450
stay1526
to burn (etc.) the midnight oil1635
to set up1697
to wake it1766
to watch up1852
to wait up1855
to stop up1857
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] > stay up or out of bed during the night
wakec900
to sit upc1450
stay1526
to set up1697
to wake it1766
to watch up1852
to stop up1857
the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (intransitive)] > endure, remain, persist, or continue > in a place, state, or condition
dwellc1175
to stop on1889
society > education > learning > [verb (transitive)] > take time out of one's education
to stop out1926
1815 Zeluca II. 86 You stopped away from Spire on Tuesday.
1819 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) I. 42 [At the end of the term he writes] The Fellows have been very kind, have said we might stop up as long as we like.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxi. 552 Georgy stopped away from school.
1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë II. v. 148 Mr. Brontë and old Tabby went to bed... But Charlotte..stopped up,—it was very tempting,—late and later.
1889 Spectator 14 Sept. This..is their notion of a career, and..to ‘stop on’ in the village is to accept a great disappointment.
1926 I. S. Cobb Some United States xi. 257 I'm a Virginian—at present stopping out in Kentucky.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §214/7 Stop out, to stay away from home all night.
1971 Less Time, More Options (Carnegie Commission on Higher Educ.) vii. 28 Colleges and universities can assist by..encouraging students to have work or service experience before entering college, to stop out while in college to obtain it, or both.
1977 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. iv. 9/1 Paul Marantz is stopping out. He's one of the estimated two million college undergraduates..who last year left school to spend some time in the outside world, or to try out some other form of education, but who do plan to return eventually and earn their degrees.
c. To sojourn as a visitor, resident, or guest.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]
liec1000
harbourc1200
sojournc1290
layc1300
sojourc1330
to make, take (up) one's lodging1362
pilgrimagea1382
bield?a1400
lodgec1400
tarryc1400
to make (one's) residence1433
harbingec1475
harbry1513
stay1554
roost?1555
embower1591
quarter1591
leaguer1596
allodge1601
tenta1616
visit1626
billet1628
to lie abroad1650
tabernacle1653
sojourney1657
canton1697
stop1797
to shake down1858
to hole up1875
perendinate1886
shack1935
cotch1950
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VI. vii. 290 They..wanted her to let Miss stop with them.
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer ii You will dine with us to-day at seven..: but make your arrangements to stop all night and to-morrow.
1859 G. Ticknor Life, Lett. & Jrnls. II. xxii. 439 Sir Henry Holland..has been stopping with the President.
1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe Pop. Tales from Norse 344 She gave the man leave to stop the night.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth vi. 26 Clandevil is stopping at Astley Court.
37.
a. To leave off doing what one is actually engaged in for the moment. Const. from. Also to stop short, to leave off abruptly.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > cease what one is actually doing
steek1563
stop1597
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity
to break offc1340
persist1563
check1635
to stop short1727
to pull in1780
jib1812
stall1923
the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > come to a stand or stop > suddenly
to stop short1727
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. ii. 46 Hath he so long held out with me vntirde And stops he nowe for breath? View more context for this quotation
1727 A. Pope Macer 134 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. There he stopt short, nor since has writ a tittle.
1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 12 Mar. (1939) 131 I was interrupt by a slumbrous feeling which made me obliged to stop once or twice.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 904 (note) The transcriber having begun to copy the next verse, and stopping short on discovering his error.
1885 W. W. Story Fiammetta ii. 32 The groups of reapers that stopped from their work to gaze at the passing train.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 74 And here, he said, I must stop, let Baithene write the rest.
b. To pause in speech or narrative; to break off in the middle of a sentence. Also to stop short, to pause abruptly. †Also reflexive.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ☛ iiijv Yea quoth Vitels..the same mynde must be in you which was in Christ, and there he stopped him [i.e. did not complete the quotation].
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 86 Ben: Stop there. Me: Why thou wouldst haue me stopp my tale against the haire. View more context for this quotation
1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in Wks. II. ii. 84 ‘Harley, the Nation's great Support,’—But you may read it, I stop short.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ix, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 209 He had just recollection sufficient to stop short in the midst of the dangerous sentence.
a1861 E. B. Browning Last Poems (1862) 85 Now what has the messenger brought her,..To make her stop short in her singing?
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. i. 36 ‘There's Luke, too tipsy to help himself,..there's Mr. Audley asleep—.’ Phœbe Marks stopped suddenly at the mention of Robert's name.
c. To pause in a course of conduct (to think, question oneself).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > temporarily cease activity or operation [verb (intransitive)] > in order to do something
stay1577
stop1865
1865 F. Marryat Love's Conflict I. xix. 328 She herself never stopped—she dared not stop—to ask herself why or wherefore she felt thus.
d. imperative, used as an injunction to pause in or desist from any procedure, as speech, argument, criticism, and the like. Also in the phrase stop a moment!
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it! > stop! or take no action!
stop1570
not so fasta1593
hold your horses!1843
to hold on1846
hold it!1926
hold everything!1930
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2164/2 At last his chaplynes cryed, stoppe, stoppe my Lord, for now he wyll recant.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 6 B... To tax Directors,..Still better, Ministers; or if the thing May pinch ev'n there—why lay it on a King. A. Stop! stop! B. Must Satire, then, nor rise, nor fall?
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. ix. 58 Stop a moment, said the prince, is there such depravity in man, as that he should [etc.].
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xxx ‘Well, are you satisfied that this is his handwriting?’.. ‘Why, of course—but stop—you are right; it is not his hand.’
1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xlvii. 408 ‘We will knock the neck [of the bottle] off with a stone.’ ‘Stop, Sir,’ said the stranger. ‘Excuse me—this is the way to do it.’
1865 F. Marryat Love's Conflict I. xix. 336 He..drew out the packet of letters. ‘Confound it!’ where was the one in his mother's handwriting? The rest were all there—stop! were they?
1887 O. Wilde Canterville Ghost v ‘Stop!’ cried Virginia, stamping her foot, ‘it is you who are rude, and horrid, and vulgar’.
e. Bridge. To refrain from increasing one's bid beyond a specified level. Const. in.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > play bridge [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > bid > types of bid
overbid1887
double1894
redouble1894
to go back1900
pre-empt1913
rebid1914
S.O.S.1926
overcall1927
cue-bid1932
psych1932
to sign off1932
reverse1939
sacrifice1952
to pass out1959
stop1959
underbid1974
under-call-
1959 Listener 5 Feb. 265/1 The British pair stopped in Five Hearts.
1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 533/1 Stopping below game, the decision to ‘stop on a dime’ in two no trump or three of a major may be influenced by a variety of factors.
38.
a. To leave off, stay, desist (in a course of action or a pursuit, or from one's customary action or employment). Const. from, to with infinitive. Also to stop short.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)]
i-swikec893
swikec897
atwindc1000
linOE
studegieOE
stintc1175
letc1200
stuttea1225
leavec1225
astint1250
doc1300
finec1300
blina1325
cease1330
stable1377
resta1382
ho1390
to say or cry ho1390
resta1398
astartc1400
discontinuec1425
surcease1428
to let offc1450
resista1475
finish1490
to lay a straw?a1505
to give over1526
succease1551
to put (also pack) up one's pipes1556
end1557
to stay (one's own or another's) hand1560
stick1574
stay1576
to draw bridle1577
to draw rein1577
to set down one's rest1589
overgive1592
absist1614
subsista1639
beholdc1650
unbridle1653
to knock offa1657
acquiesce1659
to set (up) one's rest1663
sista1676
stop1689
to draw rein1725
subside1734
remit1765
to let up1787
to wind (up) one's pirna1835
to cry crack1888
to shut off1896
to pack in1906
to close down1921
to pack up1925
to sign off1929
1689 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 61/2 Letters..ordering the Judges to stoppe and desist sine die to determine causes depending before them.
1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. i. 150 Every event has a cause, and in tracing up causes we must stop at length at a great first cause.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xxi. 99 Lady Beatrice, who really at her age ought to stop, got a blow on her forehead [at hockey].
b. To limit one's activity at a certain point; to refrain from exceeding a certain degree or extent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > at a certain point or specified limit
subsista1639
stop1737
to draw the line1839
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 539/1 I..attended the innocent but unfortunate Men to the Scaffold... I did not stop here, for I carried the Head of Captain Green to the Grave.
1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 81 If the rule be ones established that a man has power over his neighbour's property..there is no possibility to stop short.
1770 R. Cumberland West Indian iv. iii Louisa. Hold, are you mad? I see you are a bold, assuming man, and know not where to stop.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlii. 137 The woman, who admits of one familiarity, seldom knows where to stop, or what to refuse.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 260 His charity would willingly have stopped short at Ashby.
1860 H. J. Rous in Baily's Mag. Apr. 75 I know the point to stop at, and how far the public will support me in my policy.
c. To stay in action, to hesitate, ‘stick’. Const. at. to stop at nothing, to be prevented by no obstacle.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > be resolute or determined [verb (intransitive)]
confirm1382
needsa1387
beseta1400
purposea1400
to be determined1529
to set downa1586
to set (up) one's rest1593
to stop at nothing1676
to keep one's pecker up1845
the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]
nillOE
loathea1200
to make it tough1297
forthinka1300
reckc1300
ruea1400
to make (it) strangec1405
to make strangenessc1407
stick1418
resistc1425
to make (it) strange?1456
steek1478
tarrowc1480
doubt1483
sunyie1488
to make (it) nice1530
stay1533
shentc1540
to make courtesy (at)1542
to make it scrupulous1548
to think (it) much1548
to make dainty of (anything)1555
to lie aback1560
stand1563
steek1573
to hang back1581
erch1584
to make doubt1586
to hang the groin1587
to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589
yearn1597
to hang the winga1601
to make squeamish1611
smay1632
bogglea1638
to hang off1641
waver1643
reluct1648
shy1650
reluctate1655
stickle1656
scruple1660
to make boggle1667
revere1689
begrudge1690
to have scruples1719
stopc1738
bitch1777
reprobate1779
crane1823
disincline1885
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 29 The World is made for the bold impious man; Who stops at nothing, seizes all he can.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband v. vi. 63 'Tis Possible you'll stop at Nothing to preserve it.
c1738 A. Pope On Receiving Standish 24 You'd write..on ivory, so glib, As not to stick at fool or ass, Nor stop at Flattery or Fib.
1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo ii. 20 They stopped at nothing..in order to obtain their favourite food.
39.
a. Of a thing: To cease its motion or action. Of a process: To cease activity; to come to pause or end.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes
restOE
leathc1275
stintc1275
slakea1300
ceasec1374
slocka1400
batec1400
lissec1400
stanchc1420
surcease1439
remain1480
stopa1529
break1530
decease1538
falla1555
to shut up1609
subside1654
drop1697
low1790
to go out1850
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 29 Her nose..Neuer stoppynge, But euer droppynge.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia ii. 186 Whereat my blood stopt in my stragling vaines; Mine haire grew bristled.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 99 The Spring, the Head, the Fountaine of your Blood Is stopt, the very Source of it is stopt. Macd. Your Royall Father's murther'd. View more context for this quotation
1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος 181 The more he bled, the more his Fever abated, and when it was gone, the blood stopped.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 574 It flushes violently out of the Cock for about a Quart, and then stops on a sudden.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 181 The purging stopped the fourth day.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xliv. 163 Their whole proceeding stops, and there they stand, ashamed to retreat, and unable to advance.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 482 Crystallization goes on but very slowly in closed vessels; and in most instances wholly stops.
1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 247 The ulceration stops and heals.
1839 D. Milne in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 14 458 The Kirtle, a river which runs from Dumfriesshire into the Solway Frith, stopped, on the 17th February 1748, for five hours.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xxix. 141 Yesterday it rained..and when it stopped for a few minutes there was such a nasty fog.
b. Of a machine, etc.: To cease working or going. Also to stop dead.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes > specifically of a machine or mechanism
standc1175
to run down1665
stop1789
seize1878
to go phut1888
to cut out1910
conk1917
cut1938
trip out1940
phut1959
1789 W. Cowper Let. 18 July (1982) III. 303 Your Clock in the Hall has stopp'd.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 7 My watch has stopped.
1903 A. Maclaren Last Sheaves 182 You have weaving machines..that whenever a thread breaks stop dead.
40.
a. Of an immaterial thing: To have its limit of operation at a specified point. Of a series: To come to an end.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > be at an end [verb (intransitive)] > come to an end, terminate, or expire
to run outeOE
endOE
stintc1275
slakea1300
overpassc1350
determinec1374
overruna1393
dispend1393
failc1399
missa1400
to wear out, forth1412
stanchc1420
to come outa1450
terminea1450
expire?c1450
finish1490
conclude1593
upclose1603
terminate1608
to shut up1609
to wind off1650
stop1733
to fall in1771
close1821
to blaze out1884
outgive1893
to play out1964
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 128 There stops the Instinct, and there ends the Care.
1742 R. Challoner Mem. Missionary Priests II. 4 But the Severities exercised against Catholics did not stop here.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 533 That any particular mode of treatment should stop at such supposed line, and that then an opposite mode of cure should be thought necessary.
1874 E. J. Gross Algebra ii. 23 If a series stops at some one term, it is called a finite series.
1911 H. Bindloss Hawtrey's Deputy xi His comprehension stopped at such details as these.
b. Of a material thing: To come to an end (in space). to stop short, to end abruptly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > end or terminate
comea1398
end1611
stop1887
1887 S. O. Ridley in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XX. 204 Every alternate fascicle of the main skeleton stops short a little way below the surface.
1915 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 338/1 Alleys, each of which stopped with a dead end.
IV. Literary uses.
41. [ < stop n.2] transitive. To furnish with stops or punctuation-marks, to punctuate.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > punctuate [verb (transitive)]
pointa1425
interpoint1595
interpuncta1631
prick1637
distinguish1656
punctuate1675
stop1776
interpunctuate1850
1776 Crit. Observ. Bks. i. 25 Thus Bergler rightly stops these lines; for if a comma be made after στυϕελιξη [etc.].
1802 T. F. Dibdin Introd. Knowl. Rare Ed. Classics 39 (note) These verses are stopp'd according to the Harleian Catalogue.
1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. xiii. 415 Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise.
1885 G. Allen Babylon I. x. 219 That letter wasn't all spelt right, or stopped right.
42. Prosody. To conclude or divide (a line of verse) with a ‘stop’. Cf. stop n.2 17c, stopped adj. 8. Also intransitive (cf. 37b).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > have rhythm [verb (intransitive)] > be concluded or divided with stop
stop1857
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > put into rhythm [verb (transitive)] > conclude or divide with stop
stop1857
1857 C. Bathurst Remarks Differences Shakespeare's Versification 148 I think Shakspeare had a preference, where the line is completely stopped in the middle, for a break upon the short syllable.
1857 C. Bathurst Remarks Differences Shakespeare's Versification 202 Blank verse, unbroken, is still totally separate from complete rhyme, as having no tendency to stop at every other line.
Compounds
C1. Substantival or attributive uses of verbal phrases.
stop and frisk adj. of or pertaining to the stopping and searching of suspects by the police.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [adjective] > types of search
no-knock1964
black bag1966
stop and frisk1967
stop-and-search1974
1967 Economist 21 Oct. 286/1 The cases to be heard this year are a mixed bag. Those involving the criminal law and the police—particularly ‘stop and frisk’ laws—may be the most controversial.
1975 New Yorker 2 June 101/1 A Terry stop is what civil libertarians sometimes refer to as stop-and-frisk.
stop-and-search n.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [adjective] > types of search
no-knock1964
black bag1966
stop and frisk1967
stop-and-search1974
1974 Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. a10/1 A federal court judge began hearing arguments Wednesday on whether to halt the hotly debated police ‘Operation Zebra’ stop-and-search dragnet for the black killer or killers of 12 whites.
stop-and-start adj. alternately stopping and starting.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [adjective] > alternatively acting and not acting
stop-and-go1943
stop-and-start1950
stop-go1960
1950 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying 62 The feed to the dies is done with a variable stop-and-start motion, allowing the strip time to stop while the die punches out the shape.
1961 Times 4 May 13/6 The stop-and-start tendencies of our economy.
1976 Woman's Day (N.Y.) Nov. 50/2 If you do a lot of stop-and-start driving,..change every three months or 3,000 miles.
stop-back n. a contrivance for temporarily arresting the flow of water in a pipe or watercourse (now spec. a lump of clay inserted for this purpose).
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water
stopping1575
pen1585
stop1585
water stop1585
stank1604
headinga1641
stanch1767
stop-back1790
penhead1805
keep1847
stanking1883
1790 Act 30 Geo. III. c. 21 §1 Stand Pipes, Service Pipes,..Stopbacks, Valves, Fire Plugs.
stop-me-and-buy-one n. [ < the slogan on the refrigerated box at the front of Wall's Ice-Cream tricycles] a travelling vendor of refreshments, usually ice-creams; also attributive.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > other pedlars
snarler1398
stop-me-and-buy-one1935
1935 Automobile & Carriage Builders' Jrnl. 75 4/1 ‘Stop me and buy one.’ The latest type of cycle carrier for ice-cream vending.]
1935 Food Oct. 3/1 A holiday spent in a number of South Coast towns suggests that England is..becoming as ice-cream-minded as North America. The last three hot summers have provided a golden harvest for the familiar tricycle. But even more recent..has been the appearance..of the ‘ice-cream parlour’... ‘Come in and have one’ is evidently proving as alluring a slogan as the more familiar ‘Stop me and buy one’.
1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 49 Asked if I'd got an ice-cream wafer... What did she think I was, a ‘Stop me and buy one’?
1939 N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom xi. 228 To..buy an ice from the stop-me-and-buy-one man.
1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 300 There were stop-me-&-buy-one bicycle boys selling, not ice-cream, but bottles of Chianti.
1979 D. Robinson Eldorado Network iii. xliii. 288 Ice cream. Stop-me-and-buy-one, the Eldorado man on a tricycle.
stop-off n. (a) something which stops the working of a machine; in quot. attributive; (b) the act of stopping off (see 35b); a place where one stops off; also attributive.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
resting?a1425
arresta1500
bait1580
alto1591
halt1598
station1604
stop1650
stoppage1840
noon halt1843
stop-off1869
lay-over1873
stop-over1881
water stop1896
overnight1936
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey
gist?c1225
mansiona1382
baiting1477
station1578
mansion place1584
manzil1619
night stop1787
gite1798
outspan1821
halting-place1826
stopping-place1827
stepping-stone1849
waypoint1860
landing-place1861
stop-off1869
stop-over1881
siding1896
half-way1897
sit-down1898
pull-up1899
the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which > specifically a machine
stop-motion1851
stopper1863
stop-off1869
stop-finger1875
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.K 9 The stop-off motion..is very simple.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Stop-off or stop-over privileges, an arrangement made with the ticket agent to break a railway journey at some place where the passenger wishes to make a short halt.
1931 C. Beaton Diary Feb. in Wandering Years (1961) x. 226 En route for home there was a three-week stop-off in Paris.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 18 Jan. 4/2 Is the police court merely a stop-off between one back room and the next?
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Mar. 125/3 London, New York, Paris, Rome come to life not as tourist centres, holiday stop-offs, but as places of work.
1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 25/2 Cost of the trip is £530 return (excursion, 21 days–6 months, no stop-offs).
stop-out n. (a) colloquial one who stays out late; (b) North American a student who interrupts his or her studies for a time in order to pursue some other activity; an interruption of studies for this purpose; also attributive.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > part-time student
part-timer1886
vacationer1890
stop-out1906
sandwich boy1958
sandwich student1963
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > turning night into day > person
stop-out1906
noceur1908
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands ii. 24 ‘See,’ cried Annie—‘See, you dirty stop-out!’ She placed the hat on the floor and danced wildly amongst the feathers.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 72 Stop-out, an inveterate gadabout, esp. a woman.
1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 27 Yer a derty stopout, you are a nocturnal reveller.
1971 Less Time, More Options (Carnegie Commission on Higher Educ.) vi. 13 That service and other employment opportunities be created for students between high school and at stop-out points in college.
1971 Less Time, More Options (Carnegie Commission on Higher Educ.) vi. 21 Those who plan to continue with academic study either directly or after a stop out.
1971 Time 27 Sept. 79/3 Still, many stop-outs do better academically than their less-seasoned classmates, if only because they are a year older.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 Oct. 1/5 The so-called stopout students, those who postponed entering university immediately after high school graduation, now are starting to go back to school.
stop-over n. (also stopover) U.S. (a) the act of ‘stopping over’ (see 35b) or breaking one's journey to go on by a later conveyance; also attributive; (b) permission given to a passenger to break his journey (now rare or obsolete); (c) a place where a journey is broken; also figurative.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey
resting?a1425
arresta1500
bait1580
alto1591
halt1598
station1604
stop1650
stoppage1840
noon halt1843
stop-off1869
lay-over1873
stop-over1881
water stop1896
overnight1936
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > permission for
stop-over1881
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey
gist?c1225
mansiona1382
baiting1477
station1578
mansion place1584
manzil1619
night stop1787
gite1798
outspan1821
halting-place1826
stopping-place1827
stepping-stone1849
waypoint1860
landing-place1861
stop-off1869
stop-over1881
siding1896
half-way1897
sit-down1898
pull-up1899
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey > the action of stopping > the act of
stop-over1881
1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 767/2 They are allowed stop-over tickets which give them the privilege of turning their stock out at any place for the winter, and then sending them on in the spring to market.
1884 Advt. Illinois Central Railroad Tourist-tickets from Chicago to Texas,..via New Orleans, with stop-over privileges to visit the Exposition there.
1885 Outing Nov. 150/2 There I took advantage of what, in railroad parlance, is called a ‘stop-over’.
1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 97 The schedule of trains allows of convenient stop-overs.
1895 Outing 27 App. 27 By stop-over privileges at every point of interest, the Northern Pacific Railroad enables tourists to visit this wonderful region.
1905 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 87/1 At Vancouver I stepped on board a Canadian Pacific Railway steamer bound for Hong-kong, with a stop-over on my second-class ticket.
1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 11/4 Philadelphia is named as a stop-over point in excursions.
1928 Blue Peter July p. iv (advt.) A Convenient Stopover. Honolulu is a regular port of call for passenger steamers crossing to or from the Orient.
1953 I. Levin Kiss before Dying i. ii. 11 College would only be an unnecessary stopover on the road to..success.
1959 Economist 20 June 1106/1 Mr Khrushchev will round off his Scandinavian tour in August by a two or three day stop-over in Helsinki.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 18/6 From New York the round-trip economy fare is about $1,600, with stopover privileges in London and Nairobi. Because it's a very long flight, you can use the stopovers.
stop-search-question n.
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society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [adjective] > other specific methods
shadowing1889
stop-search-question1973
1973 Time Out 2 Mar. 10/3 More recently they have been performing stop-search-question late night patrols in Hornsey which have resulted in such serious crime detection as arresting people with a quid's worth of dope.
stop-short adj. that stops short of its proper object.Apparently an isolated use.
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1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxx. 191 Proud of exterior advantages!—Must not one be led by such a stop-short pride, as one may call it, in him or her who has it, to mistrust the interior.
C2.
a. Combinations of the verb with a noun in objective relation. Also stopgap v.† stop-gamble n. Obsolete† stop-game n. Obsolete a situation that ends or interrupts the game.† stop-hole n. Obsolete a plug.† stop-ship n. [translating Greek ἐχενηΐς] Obsolete the remora.† stop-throat adj. Obsolete that tightly enwraps the throat.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which
stancha1400
supersedeas1555
stop-gamble1579
stopa1586
supra sedeas1615
stop-game1659
to put a stopper on1828
off-switch1897
shut-off1951
1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Ev A most strange dreame it is of theirs who will haue thys match a bridle to the french king, a snaffle to Spayn, and a stopgamble to all practises of competition for popery.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which
stancha1400
supersedeas1555
stop-gamble1579
stopa1586
supra sedeas1615
stop-game1659
to put a stopper on1828
off-switch1897
shut-off1951
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xx. 566 No violence and injustice can be proper to usher in true Christian Religion and Reformation: these methods have made them so stunted and ricketly, that they are come to a stop-game.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture
stanch1557
stop-hole1562
stopple1562
stopping1585
stopper1591
stop1771
stopgap1872
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 2, in 2nd Pt. Herball My counsell is yt euery bath haue an hole in the bottome, by the whych the stophole taken out ye bath should be clenged.
?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 65 The Cover or Stop-hole of the Cochlea cœlata.
stop-loss adj. (of an order to sell stock, etc.) intended to save further loss than has been already incurred by falling prices.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > specific operations or arrangements
short1849
marginal1870
odd lot1870
share pushing1896
new-time1897
stop-loss1901
over the counter1921
physical1946
OTC1965
index-linked1970
bed and breakfast1974
mark-to-market1981
1901 Scotsman 8 Apr. 9/7 Many fresh stop-loss orders were put on the market.
stop-motion n. a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > one who or that which > that which > specifically a machine
stop-motion1851
stopper1863
stop-off1869
stop-finger1875
1851 Mechanics' Mag. Jan. 54/2 An Improvement in Stop-motion of Looms.
1902 T. Thornley Cotton Combing Machines 210 There are two or three descriptions of stop motions which are applied to combers when required.
stop-mouth adj. intended to keep people silent.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 261 The accumulated expences of renewals, interest, stamps, stop-mouth and forbearance money.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Echeneidae (remoras) > member of (remora)
echeneis1481
remora1533
stay-ship1567
suck-stone1602
stop-ship1605
sea-lamprey1616
ship-halter1668
sucking-fish1697
sucker1753
suck-fish1753
shark-sucker1850
ship-holder1860
fisher-fish1867
sucker-fish1867
sea-lampern-
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 160 O Stop-Ship say, say how thou canst oppose Thy selfe alone against so many foes?
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 29 Remora, or Suck Stone, or Stop Ship.
stop-tap n. the time at which drinks cease to be served in a public house.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > [noun] > a calculated space of time > closing-time
closing-time1896
stop-tap1938
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking times
bever1499
the sun is over the yardarm (also foreyard)1839
opening time1841
chucking-out time1909
permitted hours1919
stop-tap1938
happy hour1951
1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxiii. 240 Bob said that they hadn't passed by any public houses and that it was after ‘stop tap’ that they were passing the shop.
1940 D. Thomas Portrait of Artist as Young Dog 228 If you go for a constitutional after stop-tap along the sands you might as well be in Sodom and Gomorrah.
1960 V. Jenkins Lions Down Under 103 The ‘five o'clock, to six o'clock swill’ in the bars of New Zealand cities—for ‘stop-tap’ is at six—is also a phenomenon to be avoided.
1975 ‘R. Lewis’ Part of Virtue vi. 147 Next evening, after stop tap, he was putting some crates out behind the pub.
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1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram xxvii. sig. C Why in the stop-throate fashion doth he go, With Scarfe about his necke?
stop-water n. Nautical (a) something fixed or towed overboard to retard the motion of a ship; (b) a plug or other contrivance for making a joint watertight; (c) gen. (? nonce-use), an obstacle to the flow of water.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > drogue
drift-sail1627
stop-water1794
drift-anchor1874
drogue1874
sea-anchor1877
cone-anchor1902
watersail1925
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > means of preventing passage of gas or liquid > for preventing water
stop-water1794
water stop1895
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 337 Stopwaters..on the lee quarter.., may cause the ship to veer.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 450 Making a stop-water between two of the frames of timber on the fore part of the leak.
1832 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 324 If London Bridge could have kept out the first stroke of the pick-axe, the old stop-water would have been there still.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 95/2 It offers little or no resistance to the speed of the vessel as a stopwater.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xi. 228 A stop-water formed of Canvas steeped in paint,..must be fitted between the continuous plates and angle-irons.
b. Cinematography. Combinations of the verb with a noun, with reference to the technique of stopping the camera between frames in order to produce special effects, esp. animation; as stop-action, stop-frame, stop-motion, stop-shot, etc.
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1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures 201 When the ‘stop’ call was given the witch disappeared from the stage... The strange effects produced in the witch's cave were obtained both by double printing and the ‘stop-motion’.
1915 J. B. Rathbun Motion Picture Making 73 Trick street scenes, commonly known as ‘stop’ pictures.
1933 G. H. Sewell Commercial Cinematogr. x. 155 Stop-motion is..the method of cine-photography in which one, two, or three frames..are taken at one time, the camera being stopped and the subject re-arranged after each shot or group of shots.
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xxii. 274 The technique for stop-action puppet work must be worked out in terms of single motion-picture frames.
1966 Listener 14 July 67/1 The stop-shots neatly made each point.
1968 Guardian 22 Mar. 10/4 The stop-frame technique in which the puppets are photographed separately for each movement.
1976 R. B. Parker Promised Land (1977) xx. 122 Powers was quiet. We all were. It was like a stop frame in instant replay.
1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 84/1 A glass is a solid that can be regarded as a stop-action photograph of a liquid.
Draft additions 1993
Boxing. To defeat (an opponent) by a knockout. Originally U.S.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > knock down or out
to knock (formerly also hit, etc.) out of time1821
to send to dorse1822
dorse1825
to knock out1883
to put out1895
stop1895
K.O.1922
kayo1923
starch1930
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
1921 H. C. Witwer in Collier's 19 Feb. 22/4 He packed a wicked right and had stopped a lot of good men before Kid Roberts cut him short with a one-round knockout.
1939 Ring May 14/2 Corbett won the Championship by stopping John L. Sullivan in the twenty-first round.
1949 P. Cummings Dict. Sports 433/2 A boxer ‘stops’ his opponent in the third round.
1976 Liverpool Echo 6 Dec. 16/6 A capacity crowd saw Harry Orr (Salisbury) take the top junior trophy for stopping Steve Crighton (Birch Green, Skelmersdale) in two rounds.
1986 World Boxing Sept. 6/2 Hilton completely dominated the entire fight before finally stopping Benitez in the ninth.
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Horse Racing. To check (a horse) in order to stay out of the running; = pull v. 27. Also transferred.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > actions of rider
bore1677
jostle1723
pinch1740
pull1781
rope1854
screw1855
corner1861
ride1863
ready1887
poach1891
nurse1893
to ask (a horse) the question1894
stiffen1900
shoo1908
rate1946
stop1954
niggle1963
1954 R. Dahl Someone like You 232 Wouldn't it be safer if we use Jackie all the time and simply stop him the first half dozen races so he come last?
1960 C. Smirke Finishing Post iv. 38 To ‘stop’ a horse without being detected requires greater skill and jockeyship than to win.
1962 D. Francis Dead Cert iv. 34 There had been rumours..that Sandy had ‘stopped’ a few horses and had been rewarded handsomely by bookmakers.
1982 T. Biddlecombe Winner's Disclosure iii. 43 What I absolutely abhor is the truly unscrupulous individual who will persuade a jockey to stop a horse or deliberately not win a race, for financial reward.
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intransitive. Caribbean. To be or stay in a particular state or condition (implied or specified). Cf. sense 36.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)]
siteOE
won971
beOE
standOE
liec1374
rest1429
steadc1500
erdec1540
run1635
welter1847
stop1976
1976 P. Keens-Douglas Tim Tim 16 Is so dem Pentecostal people stop, always jealous.
1991 S. Selvon Highway in Sun 38 He say I must look good. And I mustn't stop barefooted.
1996 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 532/2 I couldn't stop a widow all the days of my life.
2017 @contologics 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 29 June 2020) Yuh cant change how yuh stop.
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