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▪ I. estop, v.|ɪˈstɒp|
Also 5–7 estopp(e.
[a. OF. estoper, estoupper (sense 1), and AF. estopper (sense 2), f. OF. estoupe (mod.F. étoupe) = Pr. and Sp. estopa, It. stoppa:—L. stuppa tow. Cf. stop v.]
1. trans. To stop with or as with a dam, plug, or bar: to fill up (a pool). arch.
[1292Britton i. xxx. §8 Devises remuez, chemins et euwes estopez.] a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 63 For God estopped eke the concepcioun Of every woman of his [Pharaoh's] mansioun. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 61 A barre to estop..the mouthes of the people. 1621Bolton Stat. Irel. 51 (Act 8 Hen VII.) They have estopped both parts of the Podell. 1860Russell Diary India II. 109 The road..winds along the side of a barren mountain..till it appears to be estopped by a high cliff.
2. Law. To stop, bar, hinder, preclude. Chiefly refl. and in pass., to be precluded by one's own previous act or declaration from doing or alleging something. Const. † of, to with inf. [= AF. estopper à with inf.], and in recent use from; also simply.
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. xix. (1638) 34 The law in such cases giveth no remedy to him that is estopped. 1594West Symbol. ii. Chancerie §37 A man may not deny..that whereof he wilfully estopped or excluded himselfe by deed indented. 1598Kitchin Courts Leet, (1675) 303 He is estopped to say contrary. 1654Burton's Diary (1828) I. Introd. 31 An indenture can estopp only such as are parties, and where an interest is also conferred. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 295 And therefore a man shall always be estopped by his own deed, or not permitted to aver or prove anything in contradiction to what he has once so solemnly and deliberately avowed. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 201 The lord who had granted the charter of franchise was estopped from claiming him again. 1884Law Times Rep. 16 Feb. 773/1 L. had sworn that the lights in question were not ancient, and was therefore estopped from alleging..that they were ancient.
b. gen. To stop, prevent. rare.
1876B. Harte G. Conroy iii. iii. 101 An event to be expected, feared, and if possible, estopped by fasting and prayer.
3. To cease from, stop. rare.
1796[C. Anstey] Pleaders' Guide (1803) 121 Nor would the Fates estop their task, To help thee over Quinden' Pasch.
▪ II. eˈstop, n.
[f. prec. verb.]
A stop or stoppage.
1884A. A. Watts Life Alaric Watts I. 127 An untimely estop was put upon all this prosperity by an article in the Quarterly which..denounced it [a book] as a catchpenny. |