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On-Yomi: テイ — Kun-Yomi: と.める、と.まる

Koohii stories:

1) [synewave] 5-9-2006(160): "Halt fool" - Mr T acting as a bouncer at the pavillion.

2) [SammyB] 4-7-2008(70): Used in バス停 【バスてい】 (bus stop, or bus halt literally). Story: The pavilion where people wait for buses to halt.

3) [fuaburisu] 22-1-2006(70): Mister T makes a halt at the African pavilion at the World's Fair. He eats all the snacks on offer, and chats up the ladies - "“I pity da foo who does not halt by your pavilion, it's the best !".

4) [somukeru] 6-3-2008(15): A Jedi stands guard outside a pavilion. "Halt, who goes there?" he cries.

5) [kyldyyr] 11-11-2005(10): A person decides to visit the rotating restaurant on the top of the pavilion. Noticing how nice a restaurant it is, he/she decides to call a few friends to visit the restaurant, as well. The new arrivals also notice the nice atmosphere of the restaurant and decide to call a few more friends. And so on. Eventually the restaurant is filled with hundreds of people, whose sheer weight causes the rotating section to come to a complete halt.