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Stow v. t. (past & past part. stowed; pres. part. stowing)

To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. "Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides."

To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. "Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?"

To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

noun

Stowing n. (Mining) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

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Etymology of 'Stowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... called in to lend the counsel of his official position. A man could not be shipped by freight if alive, he said. He could be sent as a corpse is sent, by paying the rate of a fare and a half and stowing him in the baggage-car with trunks and dogs. The undertaker was of the same opinion, which he expressed gravely, with ...

— Trail's End • George W. Ogden

... meal—as much as we could eat. Anchovies in oil, baked beans, and jugged hare made a glorious mixture such as we have not dreamed of since our school-days. Everybody was working at high pressure, packing and repacking sledges and stowing what provisions we were going to take with us in the various sacks and boxes. As I looked round at the eager faces of the men I could not but hope that this time the fates would be kinder to us than in our last attempt to march across ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... in a bucket of water, by way of performing my morning ablutions, and then made my way aft again to join the circle on the quarter-deck. The watch had just finished washing down the decks, and were engaged in laying up the rigging on the belaying-pins; the boys were stowing away the detested holy-stone under the chocks of the long-boat; the watch below were performing their brief morning ablutions upon the forecastle; the steward was bringing aft the cabin breakfast, sadly incommoded by the mischievous Rover, who, wet as a sponge, capered about the deck, shaking ...

— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various

... guess at what was going on in the brain of this quiet reserved youth during the progress of these plays. The keen discriminating intelligence which was always sifting and sorting these pictures and stowing them away for use in after years,—the flashes of enthusiasm,—the intuitive discernment of intellectual subtleties that brought him into rapport with the author and gave him the perception of being on an equality with the great ones of the earth, here were forces already in operation ...

— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer

... met the ribbed teak of the deck with the liveliest satisfaction; his nostrils drank in the smell of tarred ropes and oiled brass. Having escorted Mary below, seen to the stowing away of their belongings and changed his town clothes for a set of comfortable baggy garments, he returned to the deck, where he passed the greater part of the day tirelessly pacing. They made good headway, and soon ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

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