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单词 way stop
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way stop
way stop n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) an intermediate stopping place on a journey or route; also figurative; (b) a stop or break taken during a journey at an appointed stopping place.
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1884 Waterloo (Indiana) Press 12 June 7/5 The train had way stops..and were [sic] about one hour and a half making the run.
1912 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 3/1 The thief had cut through a wire screen shielding an open window of the stateroom, on the opposite side from a station platform at a way stop.
1914 N.Y. Suppl. 147 731 He..fully understood that the train in question would immediately, after having made a way stop at Rockville Centre, continue in an easterly direction.
1924 Independent 19 July 52 On their round-the-world flight..they hopped off to Charbar, Persia, a way stop on the way to Bendar Abbas.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Aug. 12/3 She [sc. a steamboat] makes various way-stops on each trip and as Skipper McMinn says—‘We stop for anyone who jumps up and down on the shore and gives us a holler.’
1981 Southern Hort. (N.Z.) Spring 13 A town that's now making it. Martinborough was once just a way stop on the road to Pirinoa.
1983 C. G. Hart Rich die Young iv. 45 Pat was using the Academy as a way-stop while he tried to break into the movies.
2002 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Feb. a1 Murphy Orchards, once a way stop on the Underground Railroad, in the Niagara County village of Burt.
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