Definition of "rest stop" [rest stop]

• See rest area. (noun)

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• "Bult might have calmed down, but he still wasn't levying fines, even though the rest stop had been on a hillside covered with sandblossoms, and two or three times I caught him glaring at me from under his umbrella."
• "Did he visit that rest stop whose name I love, Buttonwillow?"
• "Around noon, I gave up waiting for a rest stop and hauled dehydes out of my pack for lunch, and right after we ate, we came to a creek, which Bult crossed without even looking in, and a handful of silvershims."