Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To place or arrange, especially in a neat, compact way: stowed his gear in the footlocker.
- transitive v. To fill (a place or container) by packing tightly.
- transitive v. To store for future use: stowed carrots and potatoes in the root cellar.
- transitive v. Slang To refrain from; stop.
- transitive v. To provide lodging for; quarter.
- stow away To hide oneself aboard a conveyance in order to obtain free transportation.
- stow away Informal To consume (food or drink) greedily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A place.
- v. to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
- v. to put something away to store it in a space saving manner and over long time
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack.
- transitive v. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
- transitive v. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- To accumulate or compactly arrange anything in; fill by packing closely: as, to stow a box or the hold of a ship.
- To contain; hold.
- To furl or roll up, as a sail.
- In mining, to fill up (vacant spaces) with stowing.
- To bestow; give; grant.
- To intrust; commit; give in charge.
- To furnish as the stowdown: as, the whale stowed down 75 barrels of oil.
- To resist; hinder; stop.
- To put out of sight or hearing; be silent about.
- To make resistance; resist.
- To cut off; crop; lop.
- To dry In an oven.
- To conceal one's self on a ship (with a view to a free passage): with away. See stowaway.
- n. In tinplate manuf., the structure which contains the furnace and the series of five pots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. fill by packing tightly
Etymologies
Examples
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Thus, at the mouth of the Thames, thousands of tons of sprats are caught every winter by means of the large bag net, known as the stow net.
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"I come down here once in a while and let in the sun, and sometimes I want to hunt up something or 'nother; kind of stow-away place, ye see."
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At night, I was obliged to "stow" myself firmly in my berth with my cloaks and dresses, to protect my body from being bruised black and blue.
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In the future, you could tell a friend you need to drop by a yínháng, rather than a bank.iii In this imagined future, a yínháng whose capital is derived from carbon emissions credits, rather than property mortgages, would be substantively different from a bank, and a better place to stow your hard-earned savings.
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You can retrieve or stow an item as a free action instead of as a minor action.
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I tried to re-stow my hooked shroud-line cutter, but†¦ but, it was gone!
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She hears the little boy continue, For those of you just boarding, we ask you to stow all of your hand luggage under your seat.
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Because people bring in bags so huge that they can't even stow them in the overhead bins, and expect a 5ft tall stewardess to stow it for them.
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But while she made it appear as though she was deleting the tape, Ms. Klayman said her record of the incident survived: Anticipating their demands, she said she had switched the tape for a blank one, having snuck outside to stow the original in her car.
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Commercial dealers stow them away in anticipation that they'll soon disappear.
qroqqa commented on the word stow
also n. method of stowing, stowage, spec. of containers on a containership.
September 11, 2008