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Timer :: Timer (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc..

Stope :: Stopcock (n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet..

Stoped :: Stope (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps..

Stopcock :: Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc..

Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..

Blain :: Blain (n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath..

Stay :: Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

Stoping :: Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient..

Delay :: Delay (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

Long-stop :: Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.

Stop :: Stop (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds..

Stoping :: Stoped (imp. & p. p.) of Stop.

Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..

Short :: Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short..

Halt :: Halt (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.

Stope :: Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop.

Stane :: Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

Suffocate :: Suffocate (v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

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