stopt

stopt

1. Obsolete spelling of stopped; simple past and past participle of stop.
   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 146:

     The knowledge of what her mother must be feeling as the carriage stopt at the door,—of her doubt—her dread—perhaps her despair!—and of what she had to tell!—with such knowledge it was impossible to be calm.

   • 1958 August, “Brunel Papers”, in Railway Magazine, page 569, from an 1857 letter by Isambard Kingdom Brunel:

     " […] We shall want the navigation stopt—we shall want the good will of fishermen, lightermen, steamboat men and indeed of everybody, therefore seek any opportunity of getting and keeping on good terms with everyone—and of course you must be particularly courteous to the Dockyard Authority."

• Potts, T-stop, T-tops, potts

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• Rhymes: -ɔpt

stopt

1. inflection of stoppen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative