Stow

Quick meaning: Stow is a noun meaning To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
2. To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
3. To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
4. (rare) A place, stead.
5. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
6. (obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

“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.”

Word Forms

• stows
• stowing
• stowed

Synonyms for stow

Depending on context, synonyms include load, store, garner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include store, load, garner, stowage, stash, lade.

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