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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb Law To impede or prohibit by estoppel.
  • transitive verb Archaic To stop up.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bar; stop; debar; specifically, in law, to bar, prevent, or preclude, usually by one's own act. See estoppel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Law) To impede or bar by estoppel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To impede or bar by estoppel.
  • verb To stop up, to plug

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English estoppen, from Anglo-Norman estopper, from Vulgar Latin *stuppāre, to stop up; see stop.]

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Anglo-Norman and Old French estoper, from a Late Latin verb, from Classical Latin noun stuppa ("oakum").

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