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STOW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill by packing tightly

Example:

stow the cart

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "stow" is one way to...):

pack (arrange in a container)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

stowage; stowing (the act of packing or storing away)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Day after day this work went on; by every evening a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there was another fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had succeeded in making her talk her talk, and while she rattled on, he strove to follow her, marvelling at all the knowledge that was stowed away in that pretty head of hers, and drinking in the pale beauty of her face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach, my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the "stony street" of L-.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Before that, we had got the treasure stowed and had shipped enough water and the remainder of the goat meat in case of any distress; and at last, one fine morning, we weighed anchor, which was about all that we could manage, and stood out of North Inlet, the same colours flying that the captain had flown and fought under at the palisade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I heard Dick begin to rise, and then someone seemingly stopped him, and the voice of Hands exclaimed, “Oh, stow that! Don't you get sucking of that bilge, John. Let's have a go of the rum.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)