stope
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of stope
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
-
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
- To excavate in the form of stopes.
- To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
- (form-of, obsolete, past)simple past of step
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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