'To stop over' definitions:
Definition of 'To stop over'
From: GCIDE
- Stop \Stop\, v. i.
- 1. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. [1913 Webster]
- He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cease from any motion, or course of action. [1913 Webster]
- Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career! --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- By stopping at home till the money was gone. --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]
- To stop over, to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See stopover, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To stop over'
- Stop,
- Stopped,
- Stopping,
- To stop off,
- stop over,
- stop up,
- stopped up,
- stops,
- Echo stop,
- Reed stop,
- Stop bead,
- Stop motion,
- Stop order,
- Stop plank,
- Stop valve,
- Stop watch,
- Stop-over,
- Stopping-out,
- To stop a gap,
- To stop the mouth,
- Voice stop,
- Voiced stop,
- Voiceless stop,
- bus stop,
- dead stop,
- diapason stop,
- double stopping,
- flag stop,
- flue stop,
- full stop,
- furniture stop,
- glottal stop,
- labial stop,
- organ stop,
- pit stop,
- pull out all the stops,
- rest stop,
- stop bath,
- stop consonant,
- stop dead,
- stop light,
- stop number,
- stop payment,
- stop press,
- stopped diapason,
- stopped-up,
- stopping place,
- stopping point,
- suction stop,
- truck stop,
- whistle stop,
- without stopping,
- Long-stop,
- Stop-gap,
- end-stopped,
- night-stop,
- short-stop,
- Four-way stop,
- Man-stopping bullet,
- short-stop bath,
- stop-loss order,
- whistle-stop tour