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Definition of Stops
1. Noun. A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.
Definition of Stops
1. Noun. (plural of stop) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of stop) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stops
1. stop [v] - See also: stop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stops
Literary usage of Stops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Kirkman's description of the stops from the Catalogue of the Special ' Queer,
... This word is used in two senses—for the handles or draw-stops which are ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We now proceed to the 8-foot stops (the reeds come at the end according to ...
Few stops admit of mere variety and individuality in their quality of tone ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"stops. — But the mere geometrical assumption of a point-to-point correspondence
between object-space and image-space by means of rectilinear rays (even were ..."
4. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"stops BEFORE M 71. Before /it, the labial stops (тг, /3, ф) become /t ; the
palatal stops /c, ... Since these stops are retained in many words, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The sliders are connected with the draw-stops or stop-handles, which are covered
in with stout upper boards, on which the pipes Fio. 2. ..."
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