Stoppage: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Dead.

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That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

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Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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One who obstructs or hinders.

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The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.

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The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the inser…

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To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

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Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

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A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Thos…

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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