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by a set-screw on a shaft or rod as a stop or 
gage to limit the motion of a movable part 
sliding on the rod or shaft, as a fitting on the 
main shaft on which the carriage of a type- 
writer slides, and adjustments in many other 
machines. 
Stop-Cylinder (stop'sil"in-der), n. In printing. 
See cylinder-press and printing-machine. 
stop-rod 
chines the usual method is the shifting of the belt that 3 Kmit tn xpr-m-p with a stnn, 
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case of a break-down the use of a push-button releases a StOpper-DOlt (Stop er-bolt), n. Aaift., a large 
ring-bolt driven into the deck before the mam 
weight that by suitable mechanism shuts off steam from 
the engine. Fork-and-grid stop-motion, in a power- hatch, etc., for securing the stoppers 
loom, a stop-motion in which a ({rid on the batten acts in stoDt>pr-hnlp fston'^r linll j Tn&na 
connection with a fork, which when the weft-thread breaks aTO ,PP. eI . n ,. le ""-n oy, n. in tfOn- 
... , J ., -. causes a lever to drop and stops the loom. a hole m the door of the furnace through which 
stop-drill (stop'dril), fl. A form of drill made stop-net (stop'net), n. An addition to the main tne etal is stirred. See cut under piuldling- 
with a solid shoulder, or admitting of the at- net in seine-fishing. Encye. Brit., IX. 254. Juruaee. 
tachment of a collar by a side-screw, to limit stop-order (stop'or'der), n. In stock-broking, Stopper-knot (stop'er-not), w. 
the depth of penetration of the tool. an order given by a person to his broker to sell 
stope 1 (stop), n. [< ME. "slope = MD. stoepe, or buy a specified stock when the price reaches 
etc., a step; or a var. of stape, ship, a step (cf. a specified figure. 
stopen, stope, stapen, pp. of steppen): see step, stop-over (stop'o'ver), n. and a. See to stop 
and cf. stoop 3 .'] An excavation made in a mine off or oi-er, under stop 1 , v. i. 
to remove the ore which has been rendered ac- stoppage (stop's^), n. [< stopl -I- -age.'] 1. 
. A knot in the 
end of a rope-stopper made by double-walling 
the strands. 
cessible by the shafts and drifts. These are, to a 
certain extent, permanent constructions, being carefully 
supported by the necessary timbering and left open for 
passage, while the stopes are only supported so far as may 
be necessary for the safety of the mine, and are more or 
less completely filled up with the attle or refuse rock left 
behind after the ore has been picked out and sent to the 
surface. 
stope 1 (stop), v. t. and i. ; pret. and pp. sloped, 
ppr. sloping. [< stope*, .] In mining, to re- 
move the contents of a vein. The sloping is done 
after a vein or lode has been laid open by means of the 
necessary shafts and drifts. See sloping. 
StOpe 2 t (stop), . An obsolete form of stoop 1 *. 
Stope 3 t, stopent. Middle English forms of sta- 
pen, past participle of step. 
The act of stopping, in any sense, or the state 
of being stopped ; especially, a stopping of mo- 
tion or procedure. 
His majesty, . . . finding unexpected stoppage, tells you 
he now looks for a present proceed in his affairs. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 344. 
2. A deduction made from pay or allowances 
to repay advances, etc stoppage In transit or 
in transitu, in law, the act of a seller of goods who has 
sent them on their way to the buyer, in reclaiming them 
before they have come into the actual possession or control 
of the buyer, and terminating or suspending performance 
of the sale : a right allowed in case of discovering the 
buyer to be insolvent. 
stoppet, [ME., < AS. stoppa, a vessel: see 
stoop?.] __A pail or bucket. Prompt. Pare., 
Stopping (stop'ing), n. [Verbal n. of stopi, t).] 
1. The act of one who or that which stops, in 
any sense. Specifically (a) The process of filling 
cracks or fissures, as in an oil painting, with a composi- 
tion preparatory to restoring ; also, the material used in 
the process. 
The stopping, as this mixture [of size and whiting] is 
called, is pressed into the cracks by means of a palette- 
knife. Workshop Keceipts, 2d ser., p. 127. 
(6) In etching. See to stop out (a), under etopl, v. t. (e) 
The act or process of altering the pitch of the tones of a 
musical instrument in any of the ways described under 
stopi, v. t., 10. 
2. Something that stpps. Specifically (a) In min- 
ing, any solid wall or brattice built across a passage In a 
mine, to shut out the air from the goaves, or to limit it 
to certain passages, or to keep the gas confined, or for any 
other purpose. (6) In dental surg., material for tilling 
cavities in teeth, (c) In farriery, a ball or pad for stuff- 
ing the space in a horse's foot within the inner edge of 
the shoe. Double stopping, in viol-playing, the act or 
process of producing tones simultaneously from two stop- 
stop-finger (stop'fing'ger), n. Same as falter- stoop*.] A pail 
wire, 2. P- 477; Halliwell. 
Stop-gap (stop'gap), n. and a. [< stonl, + Stopped (stopt), j 
obj. <7<y>.] I. n. That which fills a gap or hia- instruments, noting the effect produced by maktnn, a brush used to sprinkle boiling wate 
tus, or, figuratively, that which serves as an stopping in any of the senses described under u P? n the napping and the hat-body to assist ii 
expedient in an emergency. stop*, v. t., 10. 2. In an organ, having the um t"ig them. 2. In etching, a camel's-hai 
upper end plugged: said of a pipe: opposed to brush used in stopping out parts of etched 
_ _____ ped strings. 
Stopped (stopt), p. a. 1. In playing musical Stopping-brush (stop'ing-brush), n. 1. In hat- 
: * ------ x_ _-^_- it.- _._ ^ , , making, a brush used to i sprinkle boiling water 
in 
hair 
I declare off ; you shall not make a stop-gap of me. 
Foote, The Cozeners, i. 1. 
A good deal of conversation which Is ... introduced 
as a stopgap. Proc. Eng. Soc. Psych. Research, XVII. 460. 
II, a. Filling a gap or pause, as in the course 
of talk. 
The "wellVand "ah's," "don't-you-know's," and other 
stop-gap interjections. 
Proc. Amer. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 312. 
open. The tone produced by a stopped pipe Is an octave , 
lower than that produced by an open pipe of the same Stopping-Cpat (stop ing-kot), n. 
The COver- 
stoppel. 
Abatements, stoppels, inhibitions. 
Marston, Scourge of Villanic, vii. 87. 
that part from such action. 
Stopping-knife (stop'ing-nif), n. A knife used 
in stopping, as a glaziers' putty-knife. 
stop-gate (stop'gat), n. A gate used to divide Stopper (stop'er), n. [< stop! + -erl.] 1. One stop-plank (stop'plangk), n. One of the planks 
a canal into sections, so that in case of a break who or tnat which stops or plugs, (a) One who employed to form a sort of dam in some hy- 
in an embankment in one section the water ' U8U P holes or openings, drmilia wnrVn T>,..,.....,,.., ,,M,. ............... ._tii 
can be shut off from flowing into it from other 
sections. 
nal. 
"the 
works. They generally occupy vertical grooves 
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were In the wing wales of a lock or weir, to hold back water in 
in thee thy calkers [margin : stoppers of chinks). case of temporary disorder of the lock-gates. 
Ezek. xxvil. 9. stop-plate (stop'plat), . An end-bearing for 
(6) That which closes or fills up (an opening, etc.), as a the axle in a railroad ' 
Big- plug, a bung, or a cork ; especially, such an article for the 
Dames (under stop). mouth of a fruit- jar, decanter, or vial, when made of the 
Sir Roger, being at present too old for fox-hunting, to 8am e material as the vessel Itself, and having no special 
keep himself in action, has disposed of his beagles and name . *s cork, bung, etc. ; a stopple ; specifically, a device 
got a pack of stop-hounds. Budgell, Spectator, No. 110. j r ? ng bottle8 for aerated water. See cut under siphon. 
Stoping (sto'ping), n. [Verbal n. of stopel, v.] or the Hie, formerly used^compres^o^^ck'sonleuSe 
In mining, the act of excavating mineral ground or flocculent substance into smallcompass. 
to remove the ore after this has been rendered I sold little bone ' tobacco-stopper* "they're seldom 
accessible by the necessary preliminary excava- "sked for now ; stoppers is quite out of fashion, 
tipns namely, sinking one or more shafts or Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 490. 
winzes and running drifts Overhand stoDine <d ' One wno or that wnlch brings to a stop or stand; 
a method of working out the contents of a vein by ad' 8 P5*incally, o "e of the players in tennis, foot-ball, and 
other games, who stops the balls. Halliwell. (e) Naut 
a piece of rope secured at one end to a bolt or the like, 
used to check the motion of another rope or of a cable. 
Stoppers for cables are of various construction, such as an 
iron clamp with a lever or screw, a claw of iron with a rope 
vancing from below upward, the miner being thus always 
helped by gravity. It is the method most commonly em- 
ployed. That part of the material thrown down which 
is worth saving is raised to the surface, and the refuse rock 
(attle or deads) resting on the stulls remains in the exca- 
vation, helping to support the walls of the mine and giv- 
ing the miner a place on which to stand. Underhand 
Stoping, excavating the ore by working from above 
downward. In underhand Stoping everything loosened 
by blasting has to be lifted up to be got out of the way 
The advantage of this method is that in case the ore is very 
valuable, less of it need be lost by its getting so mixed with 
the attle that it cannot be picked out. 
Stop-knob (stop'npb), n. In organ-building, 
the handle by which the player controls the 
position of the slider belonging to a particular 
stop, or set of pipes. When the knob is drawn out, 
the pipes are ready to be sounded by the keys. The name 
of the stop is commonly written on the knob. Also called 
register and stop. See cut under reed-organ 
Stopless (stop'les), a. [< stopi + -less] Not to 
be stopped or checked. [Rare.] 
Making a civil and staid senate rude 
And etopless as a running multitude 
Sir W. Davenant, On King Charles the Second's Return. 
resist end-play of the i 
stopple 1 (stop'l), n. [< ME. stoppel, stoppell, 
stopell; < stop + -el, now -le, a noun-formative 
indicating the instrument (as also in whittle, 
swingle, etc.).] 1. That which stops or closes 
the mouth of a vessel ; a stopper : as, a glass 
stopple; a cork stopple. 
Item, J. litill botell, with j. cheyneand J. itapett, welyng 
xxxviij. unces. Paston Letters, I. 472. 
Who knows, when he openeth the stopple, what may be 
in the bottle? B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, it 1. 
2. A plug sometimes inserted in certain finger- 
holes of a flute or flageolet to accommodate its 
scale to some unusual series. 
i.u.. biaiuf, mvu a ICTCI vi encn, atiaw ui null wim u rope . i i / , /-.* 
attached, etc. (/) In an organ, a wooden plug inserted StOpplO 1 (stop 1), V. t.; pret. and pp. stoppled, 
"" 
in the tops of certain kinds of pipes, as in those of the 
stopped diapason, flute, bourdon, etc., whence they are 
called stopped pipes. Such pipes are tuned by means 
of the stopper, (g) In a vehicle, a bar of wood with iron 
points pivoted to the body, and allowed to trail on the 
ground behind to serve as a stop or brake in ascending 
steep grades. Such a device is used, for instance, on ice- 
carts plying on hilly streets, where stoppages are fre- 
quent 
2. The upper pad or principal callosity of the 
sole of a dog's foot. 
ppr. stoppling. [< stopple 1 , n .] 
with a stopple. 
To stop or close 
His hours of study clos'd at last, 
And flnish'd his concise repast, 
Stoppled his cruise, replac'd his book 
Within its customary nook. 
Cowper, Moralizer Corrected. 
----- , * ,! " [< ME. stopyll, stouple; a 
more orig. form of stubble : see stubble.] Stub- 
ble. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
And thoru haubert andys coler, that nere nothyng souple, 
He smot of ys heved as lyjtlyche as yt were a lute stouple. 
Robert of Gloucester, p. 223. 
Stop-motion (stop'm6"shon), n. In mech., a de- 
The leg, or bones below the knee [of the greyhound], 
should be of good size, the stopper (or upper pad) well 
united to it, and firm in texture. 
Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. 45. 
3. A small tree of one of four species of the Stop-ridge (stop'rij), . A band slightly ele- 
genus Eugenia occurring in Florida. Of the spe- vate d u P<> n the surface of a blade or a similar 
cies E. Inixtfolia is the gurgeon or Spanish stopper, E. part of an implement, intended to stop and hold 
monticola iV the white stopper, and E. procera is the red it in the proper place, as in the handle. In 
.bup-uiuuiuiiisioTj i mo-snon;, n. in mech., a de- heavyTlurd, strong'* an? e ^os&gr^ned n wood d of'VlTgnt stone celts tn .e presence of such a stop-ridge 
vice for automatically arresting the motion of yellowish-brown color, likely to be valuable for cabinet- mar ks a certain class or category. 
it is necessary to stop s 
per. See cat-head. Spanish stopper. *See def a " 8l ^ee an( ^ which raises a catch that, if not raised, 
also fighting-stopper.) engages mechanism which immediately stops 
Stopper (stop'er), v. t. [< stopper, n.] 1. To the loom. Every time the shuttle enters the shuttle- 
close or secure with a stopple : as, stoppered D x fairly it acts upon a stop-finger to cause the stop-rod 
bottles. 2. To fit with a stopple or stopples 12 llft the 9 atch ; but ' if tne shuttle is stopped in its course 
-_ ,,,, through the shed, the catch is not raised, the loom is 
The mouth of the vessel to be stoppered is ground by an stopped, and the warp, which would otherwise be broken 
iron cone fixed to a lathe. by the impact of the reed against the shuttle while in the 
//. J. Powell, Glass-making, p. 73. shed, is thus saved. 
mechanisms are applied to looms, spinning-, roving-, and 
drawing-machines, winding-machines, elevators, kn" 
breakage of the thread causes the arm to fall ; and those 
actuated by electricity, in which the fall of an arm closes 
a circuit, and by means of a magnet sets In motion some 
mechanical device for arresting the motion. In most ma- 
