stow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To place or arrange, especially in a neat, compact way: stowed his gear in the footlocker.
2. v. To fill (a place or container) by packing tightly.
3. v. To store for future use: stowed carrots and potatoes in the root cellar.
4. v. Slang To refrain from; stop.
5. v. To provide lodging for; quarter.
6. stow away To hide oneself aboard a conveyance in order to obtain free transportation.
7. stow away Informal To consume (food or drink) greedily.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To put in a suitable or convenient place or position; put in a place aside or out of the way; lay up; put up; pack; especially, to pack in a convenient form: as, to stow bags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow sheaves.
2. To accumulate or compactly arrange anything in; fill by packing closely: as, to stow a box or the hold of a ship.
3. To contain; hold.
4. To furl or roll up, as a sail.
5. In mining, to fill up (vacant spaces) with stowing. A mine is worked by the method of stowing when all the valuable substance—ore, or coal, or whatever it may be—is taken out, and the vacant space packed full of deads or refuse, either that furnished by the workings themselves, or stuff brought from the surface, or both together.
6. To bestow; give; grant.
7. To intrust; commit; give in charge.
8. To furnish as the stowdown: as, the whale stowed down 75 barrels of oil.
9. To resist; hinder; stop.
10. To put out of sight or hearing; be silent about.
11. To make resistance; resist.
12. To cut off; crop; lop.
13. n. In tinplate manuf., the structure which contains the furnace and the series of five pots.
14. To dry In an oven.
15. To conceal one's self on a ship (with a view to a free passage): with away. See stowaway.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A place.
2. v. to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
3. v. to put something away to store it in a space saving manner and over long time

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack.
2. v. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
3. v. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. fill by packing tightly