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stope
[ stohp ]
noun
- any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
verb (used with or without object)
, stoped, stop·ing.
- to mine or work by stopes.
stope
/ stəʊp /
noun
- a steplike excavation made in a mine to extract ore
verb
- to mine (ore, etc) by cutting stopes
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stope1
C18: probably from Low German stope; see stoop ²
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Example Sentences
Then there was silence—for Harry had left the fissure to go into the stope and make an investigation.
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He gave me a boost against the smooth wall of the stope, and my clawing fingers caught on the edge of a sharp shelf of stone.
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And I trusted Macartney, or any man he had left in the ink-dark stope, would be fool enough to jump at me for what I said.
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But stealing gold was exactly what we were doing, only it wasn't in Thompson's old stope.
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Collins pushed it aside, and the two of us were out—out of Thompson's stope, where Macartney had meant me to lie till I died!
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