DCHP-1 Online

stopping-place

• 1 n. a place providing accommodation for travellers; an inn, usually of a primitive sort.

  See also: stopping-house  

• 2 n. a settlement where stagecoaches and groups of travellers customarily stop for food and lodging, etc.

• 3 n. Hist. the distance or track between two such stopping places.

  See also: pose (def. 2)