stop v OED ~ v 36, EDD 5 for sense 1; OED 14 d for sense 2.
1 To stay, abide; remain at home.
[1794] 1968 THOMAS 158 If you propose to stop all the year round you must pay 10/- under the same regulation as the first. 1860-1 Journ of Assembly Appendix p. 533 No man would like to stop on the ice of a frosty, dirty night, when his ship may not be more than a hundred yards from him. [1891] [c1977] WINSOR (ed) 48 Very soon I wouldn't have any strength to leave [the rock]. I'd perish if I stopped an' I could only perish if I fell through the ice. 1900 Tribune Christmas No 7 Some of the women ... declared they had seen Old Martin walking about his late residence, that lights were seen there at nights, that none of the dogs would go by the place, and that Bill Evoy's dog had stopped all one night within a few yards of Martin's house, and howled most mournfully, refusing to go home with his master. P 245-55 I said if she stop, all right; if she come on home, that's all right. C 71-116 I stopped home all last summer. 1975 BUTLER 47 I got a axe and he got a big bait chopper and we used to go down underwater and chop and hack as long as we could stop down, and come up and go down again.
2 To stanch (bleeding).
T 50/2-64 This feller here now can stop blood. You're bleedin' bad with a cut: he can stop it. T 175/6-65 He was seventh son. He was supposed to be able to put away warts and stop blood an' all this.
3 Cpd stop-short: snack given to a hungry person before a meal (P 25-67).
