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Webster 1913 Edition


Instop

In-stop′

,
Verb.
T.
To stop; to close; to make fast;
as, to
instop
the seams
.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Instop

INSTOP'

,
Verb.
T.
[in and stop.] To stop; to close; to make fast. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


instop

instop

English

Alternative forms

  • enstop

Verb

instop (third-person singular simple present instops, present participle instopping, simple past and past participle instopped)

  1. (transitive) To stop; close; shut; make fast.
    • 1905, Florida. Supreme Court, Cases adjudicated: Volume 47:
      Borrowing members of an insolvent building and loan association are not enstopped from contesting a scheme of settlement agreed upon by a majority of the stockholders and adopted by the court on bill filed by certain other members, [...]

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