[f. STOP v. + -ING2.]
† 1. Med. Tending to cause stoppage; astringent, constipating. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxiv. (1495), S j. The substaunce [of cole] without the Juys is stoppynge & byndynge.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 66. The sede & roote of it [nymphea] with the yelow floure dronken with rede stopping and tart wyne ar good agaynst … isshues.
1608. Arabella Stuart, Lett., 8 Dec., in Lefuse, Life (1913), 206. I have sent your lordship some of the stoppingest meat that is [sc. cheese].
1666. G. Harvey, Morbus Angl., xxxiii. (1672), 103. Then you must resolve to live without Victuals, there being no meat in the world, but what may be excepted against, in saying this is windy, and that is stopping, &c.
2. That stops, in senses of the verb. Stopping oyster: see OYSTER 1 c. Stopping train: a train that stops at some or all intermediate stations on a particular line.
a. 1529, 1542. [see OYSTER 1 c].
1676. Mace, Musicks Mon., 104. I must, with the Stopping Finger (only) cause the a, to sound, by taking it off, in a kind of a Twitch.
1854. Repts. Accid. Railways, 23. The train book kept at Weedon station … shows the time of arrival and departure of every stopping train.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 31 Aug., 4/2. If a stopping omnibus is an obstruction, so is a stopping cab and a sauntering pedestrian.
