the act of stopping something | the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | an unforeseen obstacle |
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | the state of inactivity following an interruption |
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | a period of time spent in military service |
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
the event of something ending | |
a spot where something halts or pauses | |
the state of inactivity following an interruption | |