come to rest

present singular third person comes to rest · participle present coming to rest · past came to rest

1. To stop moving.

   It will be recalled that the engine (No. 6157 of the "Royal Scot" class) overturned down a bank and, together with its tender, came to rest in a field of mangolds.

   1946 March and April, C. R. L. Coles, “Re-Railing the Locomotive at Bourne End”, in Railway Magazine, page 95

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   They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.

   1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469

   Engines with heavy snow ploughs are ordered to raise steam to a state of readiness, and freight trains may be cancelled or permissive loadings halved. This latter feature is of vital importance when it is borne in mind that trains are often snowed in through coming to rest between stations because of loss of tractive power.

   1960 January 28, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 10