Obs. Forms: 1 stoppa, 4–6 stoppe, 5–6 stopp, 4–9 stop. [OE. stoppa wk. masc. = OS. stoppo:—WGer. *stoppon- f. OTeut. *stup- ablaut-var. of *staup-: see STOUP.]
1. A pail or bucket.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss., B. 147. Blohonicula, stoppa.
c. 890. Wærferth, trans. Gregory’s Dial., 11. Þa becom an fisc in þone wæterstoppan.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 123/24. Situla, stoppa.
c. 1340. Nominale (Skeat), 497. Paile … Stoppe.
1397–8. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 601. Pro stoppes correi empt. pro camera d’ni Prioris.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 477/1. Stoppe, vessel for mylkynge, multra.
1491. Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 195/2. Five barellis,… thre treyn stoppis.
1548. in Hudson & Tingey, Rec. Norwich (1910), II. 174. To serche for stoppes, roopes, ladders and bokettes of lether.
1787. W. H. Marshall, E. Norfolk (1795), II. 389. Stops, small well-buckets.
1895. E. Angl. Gloss., Stop, the bucket of a well; formerly any bucket.
2. A holy-water stoup.
1419. Holiwaterstop [see HOLY WATER 2].
1426–7. Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905), 67. Also for primyng of þe haly water stop, viij d.
1483. Act 1 Rich. III., c. 12. That no merchaunt Straungier … brynge into this Realme of Englond … halywater stoppes.
1552. in Archæol. Cant. (1874), IX. 273. Item a holy water stopp of latten.
3. Sc. A pitcher, flagon, tankard. Also attrib.
1489. Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 131/1. A stop comptor, a gret pot, & a half galloun stop.
1490. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 175. A water stop of siluer.
1491. Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 176/2. A quarte stop price ij s.
1496. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 321. For five vnce of siluir of maid werk in a stop lid of the Kingis. Ibid. (1540), VII. 312. Ane silver stop weyand xij pund wecht twa unces.
1697. Invent., in Scott. N. & Q. (1900), Dec., 90/2. A tinn quart stop, a pynt.
