(dated, India) To go on strike.
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(dated) To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.).
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(dated, figurative, of things) To stop functioning.
1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume2, Chapter4, p.99,[https://archive.org/details/lastjournal…
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