station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
either end of a railroad or bus route
(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
the ultimate goal for which something is done
a place where something ends or is complete
Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
The roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. see term, 8.
Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
