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Stopping-out :: Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Interclusion :: Interclusion (n.) Interception; a stopping / obstruction.

Tap :: Tap (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet..

Intercipient :: Intercipient (a.) Intercepting; stopping.

Mahovo :: Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel..

Shive :: Shive (n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks..

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

March :: March (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..

Face :: Face (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle..

Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Gate :: Gate (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc..

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..

Plugging :: Plugging (n.) The act of stopping with a plug.

Obturation :: Obturation (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening..

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate..

Plug :: Plug (v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

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