Meaning Of The Word End-stopped

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end-stopped in American English
designating or of a line of verse that ends with a natural syntactic pause, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
adjective: ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing

end-stopped in British English
adjective: (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line

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