stope
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: [stoʊp]
stope (plural stopes)
- A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 318,
- 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 318,
stope (stopes, present participle stoping; past and past participle stoped)
- (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
- (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
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