stow
see also: Stow
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Stow
Pronunciation
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see also: Stow
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw, from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
Nounstow (plural stows)
Etymology 2From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian, from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną ("to stow, dam up"), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
Verbstow (stows, present participle stowing; simple past and past participle stowed) (transitive)
- To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
- To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
- 1922, James A. Cooper, Sheila of Big Wreck Cove:
- 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.
- To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely.
- To dispose of, lodge, or hide somebody somewhere.
- (obsolete, slang, transitive) To cease; to stop doing something.
- Bet the Coaley's Daughter (traditional song)
- But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- “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.”
- Bet the Coaley's Daughter (traditional song)
- French: ranger
- German: verstauen
- Italian: compattare, raggruppare, assemblare, traversare, ammainare, montare
- Russian: укла́дывать
- Spanish: estibar, arrumar, abarrotar
- French: stocker, garder, conserver
- German: verstauen
- Italian: immagazzinare
- Russian: убира́ть
- Spanish: guardar, almacenar
- (obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC ↗, page 63, lines 66, 69–74:
- 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.
Stow
Pronunciation
- (Scotland) IPA: /ˈstaʊ/
- Surname.
- A village in Scottish Borders, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4544).
- A village/and/civil parish in West Lindsey (OS grid ref SK8881).
- The alternative spelling of Stowe in Shropshire, England.
- A small town in Oxford County, Maine.
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A city in Summit County, Ohio.
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