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stopping-place 
1 n. a place providing accommodation for travellers; an inn, usually of a primitive sort.
See also: stopping-house
- 1878 When being jolted in a two-wheeled post stage, without springs, over these villainous roads, the traveller will do well to fix beforehand the stopping places (for meals), as hostelries are few and far between.
- 1947 At several places along the roads leading from the Ottawa in the Petawawa limits, there were "stopping places" where the teams could be fed and watered, and where the men could be put up for the night if necessary.
- 1960 On our journey to the homestead, we had to stop for the night at a "stopping place."
2 n. a settlement where stagecoaches and groups of travellers customarily stop for food and lodging, etc.
- 1909 At noon it clears, and . . . we "make tea" at Sturgeon Creek (the Namao Sepee of the Indians), the first of the "stopping-places" or Waldorf-Astorias of the wilderness. . . .
- 1961 Among the stopping-places in the Edmonton district sixty years ago, North Cooking Lake was held in high esteem by persons travelling between Edmonton and such places as Beaverhill Lake, Ross Creek and other settlements to the southeast.
3 n. Hist. the distance or track between two such stopping places.
See also: pose (def. 2)
- 1954 Over the year those French Canadian canoemen and their forbears had developed regular stopping-places along the nine-mile carrying-place. . . .
- 1878 When being jolted in a two-wheeled post stage, without springs, over these villainous roads, the traveller will do well to fix beforehand the stopping places (for meals), as hostelries are few and far between.