Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An excavation in the form of steps made by the mining of ore from steeply inclined or vertical veins.
- v. To remove (ore) from or mine by means of a stope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An excavation made in a mine to remove the ore which has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts. These are, to a certain extent, permanent constructions, being carefully supported by the necessary timbering and left open for passage, while the stopes are only supported so far as may be necessary for the safety of the mine, and are more or less completely filled up with the attle or refuse rock left behind after the ore has been picked out and sent to the surface.
- In mining, to remove the contents of a vein. The stoping is done after a vein or lode has been laid open by means of the necessary shafts and drifts. See
stoping . - n. An obsolete form of stoop.
- n. Middle English forms of stapen, past participle of step.
Wiktionary
- n. A mining excavation in the form of terrace of steps.
- v. mining To excavate in the form of stopes.
- v. mining To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop ("step"), from Middle Low German stōpe ("step"). More at stoop. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from Low German, step, from Middle Low German stōpe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Leahy should stope lecturing on racial politics to amke his poltical point.”
“For a # of years I used Rems Extended Range l68 grs, but they stope making them and went to the Sciroccos.”
“People need to grow up and stope seeing what they can sue people over.”
““A drawpoint is a horizontal plan located at the base of a stope that is generally the link between the stope and the haulage drift allowing recuperation of the broken ore.” trackback”
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“Kamel Labiad 1 month ago wow great work was that stope motion?”
“The best pratice you can use is a 22 or a BB gun try all positions then when you think you got a tuch for how to stope teh game, switch to the hutgig gun you gonna use with cheapo ammo.”
“And yan, if it wes his mynd and will yat he should be disponit vpoun, ye said deaconis and craftismen sould convey him yaire; quha answerit, yat yai culd na way stope ye executioun of justice.”
“They discovered an unknown underground mine working - tunnel, raise, or stope - and that was not what we were hoping to discover an ore deposit is more like what we were looking for.”
“Start in Downtown Durham, string the thing it down the median of 147 and I-40, veer off for a stope at the airport and then on to Raleigh.”
“The police drove the workers up - according to The Star - "stope by stope, level by level" to the surface.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stope’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery-s
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syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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vein words
scovany, flooking, flos-ferri, flucan, venule, varix, lode, epigenesis, shoad, stope, costeaning, undercut and 1 more...
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mining terms
gunnite, shotcrete, rise, headframe, tram, skip, lift, conveyor, crusher, cyclone, dry, raise and 66 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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space
plenum, exergue, ramage, berth, lacuna, swath, hollow, gap, expanse, between, margin, spandrel and 88 more...
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out forms
Sir Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
chinoiserie, rhyparography, Ludibrium, Tarasque, Trabant, joropo, blocage, crannog, whitsour, zampogna, scamillus, Kacapi and 77 more...
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skipvia's Words
syzygy, egg, lossy, catharsis, impuissance, truckle, obsequious, sequoia, sonot khazoot, alizarin, sepulchre, klister and 434 more...
Tweets
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yarb I was examining stopes just the other day. A stope is better defined as the area (off the main shaft) from which ore-bearing rock is extracted. Mar 10, 2008
skipvia Steps or shelves left around a mining site after the removal of ore-bearing dirt. Mar 10, 2008