stoppingn.
/ˈstɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑpɪŋ/ I. The action of the verb; the result of this.† 3. Pathology. Obstructed conditions of an organ: = stoppage n. 4. Obsolete.figurative.1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 33 What coolings were there in our love, what stoppings in our bowels.
1. The action of stop v. in various senses.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > stopping or blocking up
forbarringc1449
stopping1487
stoppage1540
obturation1583
obstipation1612
interclusion1623
occlusion1645
stopping up1671
blocking1706
clogging1846
choking1863
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > filling gaps
stopping1487
filleting1598
luting1608
lutation1611
beamfilling1734
grouting1793
sludging1852
stopping up1912
spackling1940
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > stopping strings
stop1530
stopping1677
barre1900
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > depriving of pay
stopping1697
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > disbudding
disburgeoning1601
disbudding1725
stopping1764
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
the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting at flying birds
shooting flying1727
flight-shooting1840
wing-shot1875
wing-shooting1881
flighting1882
flight-shot1887
stopping1902
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 169 The vpcom wes then Dittit with slayn hors and men; Swa that his fayis, for that stopping, Micht not cum to the vp-cummyng.
1487–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 132 Paide to a dawber for stoppyng of an hole in Sir Iohn lovyers chamber,..iij d.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 114 Fyrst to the hunde it mycht gret stoppyn be.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stoppynge of wynde, asthma, obstructio.
1592 F. Bacon Observ. Libel in Resuscitatio (1657) 125 For the Stopping of Traffique..I refer my Self to the Custome-Books.
1677 Ld. Guildford Philos. Ess. Musick 28 Pipes may be helped by the strength of the blast, and fretted Instruments by a favourable stopping.
1697 D. Defoe Ess. Projects 321 All discounting of Wages,..stopping of Pay, and the like, to be adjusted by stated and Publick Rules.
1764 Museum Rusticum IV. 18 I pinch off with my nail such branches as accompany the fruit, to the thickness of about two crown-pieces, which I call stopping.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 613 Pruning may be rendered almost unnecessary by disbudding, disleafing, and stopping.
1873–4 H. Sweet in Trans. Philol. Soc. 107 The voice stops (g), (d) and often (b) are weakened after vowels by imperfect stopping.
1875 E. A. Davidson House-painting 12 Stopping consists in filling in and making good all nail-holes, bad joints, cracks, &c. with putty, or with a paste made of putty and white lead, called hard stopping.
1881 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 717 Stopping, the technical term for the operation of pressing the fingers on the strings of a violin, viola, etc., necessary to produce the notes. Double Stopping is the producing of two notes at once.
1902 Land & Water 35 Oct. 616/3 Very naturally they [the boys] prefer a day's stopping [in the coverts] to a day school.
2. The placing of stops, punctuation.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun]
pointing1440
distinction1552
punctuation1593
punctation1617
interpunctiona1631
stopping1728
interpunctuation1827
subpunctuation1891
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Stops, Stopping, in Grammar.
1837 J. H. Newman Lect. Prophetical Office Church 180 They use some anomalous criticism, or alter the stopping, or amend the text, &c.
1880 Bible (R.V.) Pref. iii. 4 d Great care has been bestowed on the punctuation. Our practice has been to maintain what is sometimes called the heavier system of stopping.
1902 T. S. Omond in Notes & Queries 9th Ser. IX. 276/2 His [Browning's] punctuation..seems an attempt to supply that rhetorical arrangement of clauses which modern stopping altogether ignores.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > obstruction
stoppinga1398
oppilationa1400
obstruction1533
stoppage1575
clausure1585
obstipation1612
infarction1689
congestion of an organ1803
heart attack1836
engorgement1872
infarct1873
MI1968
cardiac1972
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlix. 1314 Suche þinges openeþ stoppyng [1495 de Worde stoppynges] of þe spleene and of þe lyuour.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. F 4 b They open the opilations & stoppynges that are wonte to be engendred in suche persons.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cxlv The Extraction thereof is a Singular remedy against the yellow Jaundice, and Stoppings of the Liver, Spleen, and Womb.
1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 86 A Coryza, or stopping of the Nose from any other Cause.
II. Concrete uses.
4. † b. Decayed honey filling the cells of a comb.
a. Something inserted to stop a hole, crevice, or passage.
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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
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 264/1 Endiæum,..the stopping of the glister pipe, which is of cloth, and hangeth by a thred.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 162 The access of air being prevented by a stopping of paste or mortar so made.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 259 The water in the inner pot..is prevented from escaping through its bottom by the clay stopping at a.
1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 230 A stopping of yarn should be rammed into the socket of the pipe before the joint is made.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > decayed honey filling honeycomb cells
stopping1609
coom1623
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie i. sig. B6 So they might liue in secula if..the noisome stopping would suffer them to abide the hiues.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie vi. sig. G5 This kinde of hony..after a while it corrupteth, and..becommeth the sowrest and the most vnsavory of al things..which then they commonly cal stopping.
c. Farriery. A pad charged with grease inserted within the shoe for the purpose of keeping the horse's foot moist.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > parts of horseshoe
calkin1445
sponge1566
stopping1566
calk1587
spurn1696
quarter1727
welt1758
heel1770
cock1789
cork1806
seating1831
toe-weight1901
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 100, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Stoppe him with Turpentyne and Hogges grease molten together, and layde on with a little toawe or flaxe, and then clappe on the shoe to keepe in the stopping.
1828 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœia (ed. 4) 464 Stoppings for the feet. Tallow 2 lb. [etc.].
d. A composition used to stop holes or crevices.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling
flocks1277
capiton1612
padding1640
wattins1690
wadding1734
packing1779
pugging1801
stopping1823
chinking1837
stopper1879
air foam1937
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > material or composition used for
closure1651
packing1779
stopping1823
chinking1837
stopper1879
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 417 Filling up cracks and defects with putty, called stopping.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 127/1 The ‘stopping’, as this mixture [of size and whiting] is called, is pressed into the cracks [of the picture] by means of a palette-knife.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 43 [Before painting] any knots or resinous places in the woodwork should be coated with ‘stopping,’ or red lead in varnish.
e. Dentistry. The material used for stopping a hollow tooth.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > materials
porcelain1845
investment1860
stopping1863
pack1923
1863 G. O. Trevelyan Lett. from Competition Wallah vi, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 24/2 As a dentist once said to me, ‘All is not stopping that glitters’.
1896 Punch 11 Jan. 24/2 You mustn't bite anything for two hours at least, or you'll spoil the stopping.
5. † a. A dam, embankment. 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
1575 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 375 The banks and stoppings of the waters aboute Sowthe bridge.
b. Mining. (See quots.)
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > partition in mine
stopping1708
buntons1839
bulkhead1881
dam1881
1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 18 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Care of the Air must be taken in general, That it be not too much Dispersed, or too much Liberty given for want of Stoppings.
1791 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) V. 103/2 The passage..must be closed up..by a partition of deals, or by a wall built with bricks or stones, to prevent the air passing that way. This building is called a stopping.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 986 By means of such stoppings placed in the boards next the dip-head level, the air can be transported to the right hand or to the left for many miles.
1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 50 §42 (3) All stoppings between main intake airways and main return airways.
6. Archery. (See quot. 1801.)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > point
pikeOE
pile1592
stopping1801
1801 T. Roberts Eng. Bowman 294 Stopping, the extreme part or head of the pile, which is solid.
Compounds
C1. Combined with adverbs. (See the related verbal phrases under stop v.)
stopping down n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > reducing aperture
stopping down1904
1904 Kilbey Hand-camera Photogr. 39 This is the chief use of ‘stopping down’.
stopping off n. (also attributive).
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > types of shaping process > adapting a mould
stopping off1856
1856 G. Gore Pract. Chem. 77 ‘Stopping off’ to Prevent Deposition.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2407/2 Stopping off (Founding), a term applied to the filling up with sand of a portion of a mold, when the casting is desired to be smaller than the pattern from which the mold is formed.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §45/2 Small town,..stopping-off place.
1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive iv. 41 I'll need up-to-the minute information..final itinerary..stopping-off points, so forth.
stopping out n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > etching > techniques
stopping out1807
regrounding1831
retroussage1868
1807 J. Landseer Lect. Engraving 232 Either by partial stoppings out, or the increased pressure of his Etching-needle.
1838 J. Robinson in Newton's London Jrnl. (1840) 16 64 These stopping-out apparatus are not limited as to their forms or dimensions.
1880 P. G. Hamerton Etching & Etchers (ed. 3) App. 338 Stopping-out varnish.
1971 Time 27 Sept. 79/1 The trend of stopping out is growing..partly because the draft law now gives young men with high lottery numbers a new freedom.
1977 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. iv. 9/1 Stopping out..has become so popular on some campuses that the notion of graduating in four years seems almost quaint.
stopping-over n.
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1932 New Yorker 4 June 38 You leave Seattle July 9, and do a bit of stopping-over at Yokohama, Tokio, and other Japanese ports.
stopping up n.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [noun] > closing or shutting > stopping or blocking up
forbarringc1449
stopping1487
stoppage1540
obturation1583
obstipation1612
interclusion1623
occlusion1645
stopping up1671
blocking1706
clogging1846
choking1863
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests > timbers supporting ship when launching
ways1581
bilge-ways1769
dogshore1780
driver1781
slice1791
puppet1792
stopping up1805
dog1831
dagger1838
bulge-ways1850
poppet1850
trigger1867
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > filling gaps
stopping1487
filleting1598
luting1608
lutation1611
beamfilling1734
grouting1793
sludging1852
stopping up1912
spackling1940
1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Suffocation A choaking, stifling, or stopping up of the breath.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 330 The principal Cause that there hath been so much bad Cyder made in most parts of England, was the too early stopping of it up.
1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 136 Stoppings-up, the poppets, timbers, &c. used to fill up the vacancy between the upper-side of the bilgeways and the ship's bottom, for supporting her when launching.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 821/1 at Shipbuilding There should be at least two chains on each side secured to the fore-poppets,..and two on each side to the stopping-up.
1912 H. J. Butler Motor Bodies & Chassis 114 Opinion is divided as to when the stopping up should take place. Some painters do it now, while others leave it till the filling up..is done.
C2.
a. General attributive.
(a) With the sense ‘bringing to a stand’.
stopping effect n.
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1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xxiv. 279 As a matter of fact, however, it [the bullet] went clean through him [the charging lion] without having the slightest stopping effect.
stopping power n.
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1896 Times 16 Dec. 5/2 In the Chitral campaign the stopping powers of the Lee-Metford rifle bullet were shown to be so small that [etc.].
stopping quality n.
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1898 B. Burleigh Sirdar & Khalifa vii. 106 The soldiers have no faith in the stopping quality of the Lee-Metford bullet.
(b) With the sense ‘coming to a stand, halting’.
stopping distance n.
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1947 Highway Code 10 The good driver knows how stopping distances increase with speed, and drives accordingly.
stopping-point n.
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1854 Poultry Chron. 1 504 The improvement in these birds is so continuous, that it is hard to say where their stopping-point will be found.
(c) With the sense ‘filling holes or crevices’.
stopping-instrument n.
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1862 Chamb. Encycl. III. 497/2 To be firmly pressed with a blunt-pointed stopping-instrument or ‘plugger’ into all the interstices of the hollow of the tooth.
stopping-knife n.
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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 422 Glaziers are likewise furnished with stopping knives.
stopping-material n.
stopping-tool n.
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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 371 The plasterer likewise employs several small tools, called stopping and picking-out tools.
b. † stopping pan n. Obsolete a pan for melting materials for making ‘stoppings’ (sense 4c).† stopping stick n. Obsolete a shoemaker's tool (? for filling crevices).
stopping-ground n. Etching (see quot.).
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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
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 442/1 The parts which are bitten-in enough, are now to be covered with what is called stopping-ground, which is a mixture of lamp-black and Venice turpentine.
stopping house n. Canadian a house offering accommodation to travellers; a boarding-house or rooming-house.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1883 Prince Albert (Sask.) Times 18 Apr. 1/5 The road from Carrot River crosses the South Saskatchewan at this point where there is now a first class ferry and stopping house.
1912 H. Footner New Rivers of North 235 None of the stopping-houses along this trail have progressed beyond the most primitive stage. They provide a floor for you to sleep on and a fire-place, in some cases a stove for you to cook your food on; that is all.
1970 R. Paterson & J. Paterson Cranberry Portage i. 4 I got a stoppinghouse here... My rooms is all full up.
stopping mixture n. Etching a composition to be used as a stopping-ground.
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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
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 767 If the ground be any where broken up, a composition called the stopping mixture, must be immediately applied to it.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary equipment > other specific equipment
button iron1566
stopping pan1566
probang1657
searcher1834
flea collar1953
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 85, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Then fill both his feete with Hogges grease and bran fryed together in a stopping pan.
stopping-place n. (a) a place at which a person or thing stops; (b) Canadian History a stopping house, or a settlement where groups of travellers customarily stop for food and lodging.
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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 > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. > resting-place on journey
baiting1477
baiting-placec1530
stage1603
post-stage1642
station1722
post station1749
station house1815
stopping-place1827
stage-stand1856
refreshment stop1880
pull-up1899
1827 A. Sherwood Gazetteer Georgia 37 Camp c. in the N.W. part of the Warren..and well known as a stopping place.
1836 C. Fox Jrnl. 31 Aug. in Mem. Old Friends (1882) ii. 5 Dr. Buckland was an outside compagnon de voyage, but often came at stopping places for a little chat.
1848 W. Templeton Locomotive Engine (ed. 2) 73 In nearing any station or stopping place, the steam must be shut off.
1878 J. M. LeMoine Chron. St. Lawrence 21 When being jolted in a two-wheeled post stage, without springs, over these villainous roads, the traveller will do well to fix beforehand the stopping places (for meals), as hostelries are few and far between.
1909 A. D. Cameron New North 28 We ‘make tea’ at Sturgeon Creek (the Namao Sepee of the Indians), the first of the ‘stopping-places’ or Waldorf-Astorias of the wilderness.
1950 Engineering 17 Nov. 387/2 Stopping places off the carriageway in the form of lay-bys.
stopping rule n. Statistics any rule in sequential testing or sampling for deciding when an investigation should be terminated, dependent on the cumulative trends in the results obtained.
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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > rule for terminating investigation
stopping rule1953
1953 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. B. 15 9 Thus if a history of the population is available over some period of time, λ + μ can be estimated from the observed number of incidents and the Ui, and λ/(λ + μ) from the proportion of the incidents that are births; the details will depend on the stopping rule.
1960 P. Armitage Sequential Med. Trials ii. 17 The design of the trial is determined entirely by the stopping-rule.
1978 Brit. Jrnl. Cancer 38 760/1 Investigators were also asked whether they used any formal or informal stopping rules for the early termination of trial if treatment differences should develop.
stopping station n. one of the stations at which an express train stops.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types
stopping station1840
way station1840
flag-station1852
by-station1864
transfer station1869
junction1876
stationette1891
station house1891
halt1910
stub station1916
ghost station1928
whistle-stop1934
parkway1972
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 32/2 One of the ‘stopping stations’ of all the second class trains being opposite.
1891 Daily News 3 Apr. 5/5 Only Bletchley,..Stirling, and Perth are stopping stations by these specially fast trains.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > other
thumb-stall1589
stopping sticka1600
dresser1600
heel-block1600
rubbing pin1600
stopper1600
petty boy1688
shoe-bench1841
shoe hairs1859
fudge-wheel1874
shoe-hammer1875
size-stick1875
trimming-machine1877
heel breaster1879
slugger1892
waist-hammer1895
waist-iron1895
a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. iv. sig. Civ The whetstone, the stopping sticke, and the Paring knife.
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stoppingadj.
/ˈstɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑpɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > constipated > causing
stoppinga1398
oppilative?a1425
costive1528
incostive1570
constipating1860
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxiv. 1007 The wose and ius þerof [sc. caule] is rennyng..but þe substaunce wiþoute þe ius is stoppyng and byndynge.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 66 The sede & roote of it [nymphea] with the yelow floure dronken with rede stopping and tart wyne ar good agaynst..isshues.
1608 A. Stuart Let. 8 Dec. in M. Lefuse Life & Times A. Stuart (1913) 206 I have sent your lordship some of the stoppingest meat that is [sc. cheese].
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxxiii. 103 Then you must resolve to live without Victuals, there being no meat in the world, but what may be excepted against, in saying this is windy, and that is stopping, &c.
2. That stops, in senses of the verb.
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1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 104 I must, with the Stopping Finger (only) cause the a, to sound, by taking it off, in a kind of a Twitch.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 4/2 If a stopping omnibus is an obstruction, so is a stopping cab.
Compounds
stopping oyster see a stopping (also choking) oyster at oyster n. and adj. Phrases 1c.
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?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte sig. Bv I haue a stoppynge oyster in my poke.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 55v To a feloe laiyng to his rebuke, that he was ouer deintie of his mouthe and dyete, he did with this reason geue a stoppyng oystre.
stopping train n. a train which stops at some or all intermediate stations on a particular line.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > stopping at some or all stations
slow train1838
omnibus train1846
way train1846
stopping train1854
stopper1969
1854 Repts. Accid. Railways 23 The train book kept at Weedon station..shows the time of arrival and departure of every stopping train.
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