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Stope

/[stoʊp]/ noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

    "The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself."

Verb
  1. 1
    To excavate in the form of stopes.
  2. 2
    simple past of step form-of, obsolete, past
  3. 3
    To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.

Etymology 2

Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.

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