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stow

noun
/stoʊ/US/stəʊ/UK/ˈstaʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻ — “to stand, place, put”
  2. inherited from *stōō✻ — “a place, stowage”
  3. inherited from *stōu✻
  4. inherited from stōw — “place, location”
  5. inherited from stowe

Definitions

  1. A place, stead.

  2. To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable…

    To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.

  3. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.

    • Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.

    2. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.

      • Ar.[…]The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep :[…]

    3. To cease

      To cease; to stop doing something.

      • “Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”

    4. A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.

      • His seconde hawke wexyd gery […] on the rode loft She perkyd her to rest. The fauconer then was prest, Came runnynge with a dow, And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’ But she wold not bow.

    5. A surname.

    6. A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4544).

    7. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref…

      A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8881).

    8. The alternative spelling of Stowe in Shropshire, England.

    9. A small town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.

    10. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

    11. A city in Summit County, Ohio, United States.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA