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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of stow.
Examples
“After long cogitations, I resolved to steal up to the house, if possible, unperceived; have my horse turned over to the groom, and my portmanteau stowed out of sight, and then to walk boldly up to the door, with a visiting-card in one hand, and my credentials in the other, to be delivered to the servant for the lady to whom the letter was addressed.”
““Do you really think I have gold coins stowed back here?” he asked, facing Morris again.”
“There are two small rooms, one a shop in which kindling wood is stowed, which is gathered up by the children, split and tied in bundles.”
“We had "stowed" the hay in the loft that morning for Uncle Roger, so we felt that we had earned the right to loll on our sweet-smelling couch.”
“Little William was, perhaps, dreaming of his English, and Lilly Lalee of her African, home; while the sailor, in all probability, was fancying himself safely "stowed" in the forecastle of a British frigate, with all sail rightly set, and a couple of hundred jolly Jacks like himself stretched out in their "bunks" or swinging in their hammocks around him.”
“When "stowed" thus they would be easier managed upon the passage -- such was the experience of the slave-traders.”
“stowed" the hay in the loft that morning for Uncle”
“Availble in folding or fixed-blade models, Benchmade's new Water Knives beg to be stowed in your boat in tackle box.”
“The real culprit, according to "The Statues That Walked," was the Polynesian rat Rattus exulans , which stowed away on the boats of the first Polynesian settlers.”
“We were all stowed down a small hold and before long, as we were not allowed out of the hold, the stench was awful.”
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