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stopblock

noun

Etymology

From stop + block.

  1. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻
  2. derived from *blukką✻
  3. derived from *blokk✻
  4. derived from *blok✻
  5. derived from blok
  6. derived from bloc
  7. inherited from blok
  8. formed as stopblock — “stop + block”

Definitions

  1. An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going…

    An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going any further.

    • [...] we were losing speed for the descent into King's Cross Platform 8, where a large crowd had gathered. For the last time, an HST braked gently and smoothly to a stand at the stopblock, and it was all over.

The neighborhood

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