Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not stowed.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unstow.

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Examples

  • One of my toggles came unstowed and I didn't recognize the problem.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2007 2007

  • One of my toggles came unstowed and I didn't recognize the problem.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007 2007

  • Small unstowed objects began floating about the cockpit.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • My fellow had a look at the body when they unstowed it, and he says the Admiral was as fresh as the day he died, so he was, with flesh soft as a baby, and the only change was that all the man's hair and nails had grown wild.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • My fellow had a look at the body when they unstowed it, and he says the Admiral was as fresh as the day he died, so he was, with flesh soft as a baby, and the only change was that all the man's hair and nails had grown wild.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • She was deep enough in the water now, and on her deck lay many an unstowed bale, many a cask of wine, for which the sad-looking Cretan sailors, in their tunics and short cloaks, had not yet been able to find room.

    Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Anonymous

  • Rainey led him down the gangway to the deck of the sealer, still cluttered a bit with unstowed gear.

    A Man to His Mate Stockton [Illustrator] Mulford 1906

  • Such phrases I heard everywhere, as I groped my way among chests and barrels and beams and unstowed cargo and ring-bolts and emigrants, down to the lower deck, and thence up to the light of day again, and to my former station.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • Such phrases I heard everywhere, as I groped my way among chests and barrels and beams and unstowed cargo and ring-bolts and

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • Her length, her square and massive hamper, with the symmetry of her spars, and the long, straight outline of the hull, left no doubt that it was a cruiser, with her hammocks unstowed.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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