stopping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of stop

noun

1. The act of something that stops; a halt.

   “constant startings and stoppings”

2. (dated)Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.

   “an amalgam stopping”

   “curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth”

   “Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.”

3. A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
4. A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

   “1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse The drawing poultices and stoppings of farriers are often highly injurious, instead of abating inflammation .”