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Stowage   Listen
noun
Stowage  n.  
1.
The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
2.
Room in which things may be stowed. "In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures."
3.
The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in safe stowage."
4.
Things stowed or packed.
5.
Money paid for stowing goods.






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"Stowage" Quotes from Famous Books



... it quite a distracting circumstance to follow her proceedings, and to find that every nook and corner and individual piece of furniture was something else besides what it pretended to be, and was a mere trap and deception and place of secret stowage, whose ostensible purpose ...
— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens

... there were several large, metallic flasks, made very broad and flat, as I suppose for the purpose of better stowage in his room. What they had formerly contained, I could only judge by the smell; but they were empty now. This, then, was the experiment that I would try,—filling these flasks with nitro-glycerine, I would lower them into a crevice in the ice. Then, if I could, I must make a block of ice ...
— John Whopper - The Newsboy • Thomas March Clark

... their rotten walls; one had a mimic clock, upon a crazy tower of four feet high, which screened the chimney; each in its little patch of ground had a rude seat or arbour. The population dealt in bones, in rags, in broken glass, in old wheels, in birds, and dogs. These, in their several ways of stowage, filled the gardens; and shedding a perfume, not of the most delicious nature, in the air, filled it besides with yelps, and ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... the locker a supply of tinned goods, together with a patent coffee-pot and frying-pan, so convenient where space is scarce and stowage-room precious. ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

... farm-house and cottage." I, on the other hand, bore my confidences soberly enough, and kept them safe and very close—regarding myself as merely a sort of back-yard of mind, in which Danie might store up at pleasure the precious commodities intrusted to his charge, which, from want of stowage, it cumbered him to keep, but which were his property, not mine. And though, I daresay, I could still fill more than "a couple of paragraphs" with the love-affairs of townswomen, some of whose daughters were courted and married ten years ago, I feel ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... conveyance, and, in Kashmir itself, all luggage must be selected with a view to its adaptability to the backs of coolies or ponies. In Srinagar one can buy native trunks—or yakdans—which are cheap, strong, and portable; and the covered creels or "kiltas" serve admirably for the stowage of kitchen utensils, ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne



Words linked to "Stowage" :   stow, room, larder, storage, storage room, stock room, buttery, lumber room, stowing, pantry, chandlery, strongroom, charge, stockroom



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