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Stope
Stope
,Noun.
(Mining)
A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stope
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stoped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoping
.] (Mining)
(a)
To excavate in the form of stopes.
(b)
To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Definition 2024
stope
stope
English
Noun
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 **** itself.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 318,
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Verb
stope (third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple 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.