stop work

A device attached to the barrel of a watch, musical-box, or spring-clock, to regulate the winding of the spring, and prevent overwinding. stõpe, s. [From step (q. v.).] Mining: A horizontal bed or layer of ore forming one of a series of steps into which it has been excavated. "We were obliged to stope the sides of the shaft in blue stone, but we have cut through the lode in the stope about five feet wide of very good appearance." -Money Market Review, Nov. 7, 1885. stõpe, v. t. or i. [STOPE, 8. ] Mining: 1. To cut away the ore so that the upper or under surface presents the form of a series of steps. London Standard. "We are still sinking and stoping at the No. 2 shaft." 2. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the lode has been excavated.