stops hipt (stop ship)

[ remora. O Stop -ship,... tell vs where thou doo'st thine Anchors hide; Whence thou resist est Sayls, Owers, Wind, and Tide. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. stop-thrust (stop'thrust), n. In fencing , a slight thrust at one's opponent, instead of a parry, made after he has begun to lunge forward in an attack. The stop-thrust goes over by delicate gradations into the time-thrust, but is not considered by fencers a fine blow like the time-thrust.