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• past tense form of stop.
• past participle of stop.

stopt

American  

[stopt] / stɒpt /

verb

Archaic.

1. a simple past tense and past participle of stop.

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stopt

I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Being sent for very early in the Morning, I found her Pulse hard, quick, short; her Belly was tense and hard; she complained greatly of her Loins: her Urine was almost entirely stopt.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Let me go!—instantly! instantly!—Would you make me hate—' She had begun with a precipitance nearly vehement; but stopt abruptly.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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