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▪ I. stow, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (sense 3).
Forms: 1 stów, 3 -stouwe, stowe, 4 steowe, stou, 9 dial. stow.
[OE. stów fem. = OFris. stô, ON. *stó in eldstó fireplace:—OTeut. *stōwō f. *stō- (sta-): see stand v.]
1. = place n. in various senses; a place on the surface of the earth or in space; occas. a place in a book or writing. Cf. erdingstow.
The word survives in the names of many towns and villages, sometimes separately, as Stow in Cambridgeshire, Stowe in Buckinghamshire, Stow-on-the-Wold; more frequently as the terminal element, as in Chepstow.
Beowulf 1372 Nis þæt heoru stow. c888ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §5 Þu eart æᵹðer ᵹe weᵹ, ᵹe ladþeow, ᵹe sio stow ðe se weᵹ to liᵹð. a1175Cott. Hom. 219 For wan hi beoð þuss icweðe me scel sigge, an oðre stowe. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 207 He haueð..gon..seldere þenne he sholde to his chirche, and to oðre holie stowen. c1205Lay. 1209 Makian ich wlle on þine nome mæren ane stowe. a1300Shires England 5 in O.E. Misc., Þe breade of Engle londe is þreo hundred myle brod from Dewyes steowe to Doueran. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxxv. 98 On stou ase thou stode,..Thou restest the under rode.
2. (See quot.) rare—1.
c1440Promp. Parv. 478/1 Stowe, streythe passage betwyx ij. wallys or hedgys, intercapedo.
3. dial. (See quot.)
1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 726/1 Stow or Tray. (Lincolns.), a sheep-hurdle.
▪ II. stow, n.2 Mining.|stəʊ|
Also 7–9 stowe, 9 stoe.
[App. a sing. form evolved from stowce (to which the first quot. may belong).]
†1. = stowce. Obs.
1550in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 93 And if any Gentle⁓man or other man have any Ground lying in the Mine called The Kings Field of the Mine, they shall keep them lawfully with Stows and Timber. 1653E. Manlove Lead-Mines 5 (E.D.S.) They may make crosses, holes, and set their Stowes, Sink Shafts, build Lodges, Cottages, or Coes. a1661Fuller Worthies, Derby. (1662) 229 He that stealeth Oar twice, is fined, and the third time struck through his hand with a Knife unto the haft into the Stow, and is there to stand until death, or loose himself by cutting off his hand. 1681T. Houghton Rara Avis in Terra Gloss. (E.D.S.) Stows, seven pieces of wood..fastened with pins of wood together; two are called soul-trees; two, stow-blades; two, hang⁓benches; and a spindle: these stows give a miner, or any person that owns them, as good right to a meer or meers of ground (so that every meer have a pair of stows set on them) as a deed of conveyance doth to any purchaser. 1836R. Furness Astrol. i. Poet. Wks. (1858) 133 Then would he dress a helm,..Make stows, and keep the heavy hours alive.
†2. A nick in the ‘stow-blade’. Obs.
1851Topping Manlove's Customs Lead Mines Gloss. 33/1 They have a nick in the top like an arrow's head, called a stow.
3. Comb. stow-fork = stow-blade.
1824J. Mander Derbysh. Miner's Gloss. 68 In the Wapentake of Wirksworth they [the Stoces] contain seven pieces of wood, viz. two Sole-trees, two Hang Benches, two Stoe-forks, and one Spindle.
▪ III. stow, n.3 Obs. exc. techn.|stəʊ|
Forms: 6–8 stowe, 7 stough, 7– stow.
[Variant of stove n.1]
†1. In various senses of stove n.1: A hot-air bath; a heated room or chamber; a hothouse for plants; a closed fireplace. Obs.
In quot. 1599 the spelling stowis is prob. merely an example of the writing of w for v in Sc., and has no phonetic significance.
[1599Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 187/2 Fewall..is alreddie brocht to ane grit decay within the boundis of þis realme by the excessiue spending..þairof for laik of the formes of killis, stowis, and furnessis eftermentionate.] 1614Markham Cheap & Good Husb. ii. i. 114 To set Hens in the winter time in stowes or ouens is of no vse with vs in england. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 399 They could neither eate nor drinke vnlesse they had first bathed or had sweat in a stough. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 145 To keep the heat of their Stows from going out, or any cold from coming in. 1655Hartlib Ref. Silk-worm 30 Iohn Tradeskin.., by the advantage of putting his Trees, and other Plants into a warm house in winter or a stow, nurses up those things faire and fragrant, which would without that help either dye or be dwarft. 1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 218 The Dutchess of Beaufort shewed me this [plant] in her Stows at Badmington. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 267 Commit them early to their shelter, where they may intirely be preserv'd from the Frost; you may give them a gentle Stow, and attemper the Air with a Fire of Charcoal during the extream rigour of the Winter. 1730Inventory D. Bond's Goods (1732) 18 A small Stow and Fender. 1731Inventory T. Warren's Good (1732) 32 One Cupboard, 2 Stowes.
2. Tin-plate making. (See quot. 1875.)
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1253 A range of rectangular cast-iron pots is set over a fire-flue in an apartment called the stow. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2413 Stow, a raised structure containing the furnace and set of pots used in the manufacture of tin-plate.
▪ IV. stow, n.4 Sc. and dial.
Also stove; for other forms see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Stove.
[f. stow v.2]
1. The stump of a tree or shrub.
1774Hutchinson Hist. Cumb. (1794) I. 102 The bottoms, or stoves, of some of the trees,..which appeared to be then lately cut down.
2. A thick slice (of cheese).
1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. xx, A kebbuck syn..pat on the sheaf, In stous that day.
▪ V. stow, v.1|stəʊ|
Pa. tense and pple. stowed |stəʊd|. Forms: 4 stau, staw, stew, stouwe, stue, stywe, 4–7 stowe, 5 stou, stowyn, 6 stoe, 7 stoaw, stooe, 4– stow. pa. pple. 4 i-stewid, 7 stoad.
[f. stow n.1 Cf. bestow v.
OE. appears to have one example, stouuiᵹan (= *stówian) ‘retentare’ (Corpus Gl. c 725); but the meaning of the lemma is obscure, and the vb. recorded from the 14th c. onwards is prob. an independent formation.]
†1.
a. trans. To place; to put in a certain place, position, or situation. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 113 Wheþer þay wern worþy, oþer wers, wel wern þay stowed. Ibid. 352, & when ȝe arn staued, styfly stekez yow þerinne. Ibid. 360 Al wer stawed & stoken, as þe steuen wolde. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 39 Leste þe kyng and his counseil ȝor comunes apeire, And beo stiward in oure stude til ȝe be stouwet [v.rr. stewed, stuede, stuyd, stywed, stowed] betere. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1271 (MS. Gg.) And for þou..Hast holpin þere I likly was to steruyn And me ben I-stewid [other MSS. bistowed] in so hi a plase. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 277 Tullius..seiþ þat Socrates..cleped philosofie from hevene into erþe, and stowed [L. collocavit] philosofie in citees. c1440Promp. Parv. 478/1 Stowyn, or cowche to-gedyr, loco, colloco. 1555T. Phaer æneid ii. (1558) F ij, And captiue children stode, and tremblyng wifes in long aray Were stowed about and wept. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xli. (1612) 198 His eie had stoed her in his heart. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 119 Till sable Night..in her vaultie prison, stowes the daie.
refl.1594R. Carew Tasso (1881) 10 Part campt abroad, part them in circuit stowe, Another part within Tortosa lay.
b. To lodge, quarter, find room for (persons). Now only in derogatory sense (after 3).
1604Shakes. Oth. i. ii. 62 Oh thou foule Theefe, Where hast thou stow'd my Daughter? 1607Rowlands Diogines Lanth. C 1 b, If thou hast roome to stooe him in thy Tunne, He will be ready both to goe and runne. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 277 There they lodge as well as they can, some having little Rooms made of wood, to which they go up by Ladders, and are stowed three or four together in one. 1707Prior Satire upon the Poets 76 You've no Friend left, but trusting Landlady, Who stows you on hard Truckle, Garret high. 1739‘C. Dodd’ Ch. Hist. Eng. II. 170/2 She stowed her children in a pair of panniers, and so proceeded on her journey. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. II. viii. 47 Mrs. Beatrix Ruthven was brought..as one of their gentlewomen, into the court in the evening, and stowed in a chamber prepared for her by the queen's direction. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 130 The coaches came, and Harry assisted..in carrying..and gently stowing the maimed and wounded into some of them. 1788Wesley Jrnl. 8 July, We were much distrest at Rotheram for want of room, the rain driving us into the house. However we stowed in it as many as we possibly could. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxi, I will but see him stowed, and be back with you presently.
†2. To invest (money); to apply (money or goods) to a particular purpose; to spend. (Cf. bestow v. 5, 5 b.) Obs.
Sometimes written 'stow, as if short for bestow.
c1440Promp. Parv. 478/1 Stowyn, or waryn, or besettyn, as men don moneye or chaffer, commuto. 1616R. C. Times Whistle 2544 If thou dost flow In thy frank guiftes, and thy golde freely stow, The principall will make thy pennance ebbe. 1617Fletcher Mad Lover Prol., Remember, ye'ar all venturers; and in this Play How many twelve-pences ye have 'stow'd this day. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 7 And yet Lorenzo still affects the world; There, stows his treasure. 1762Gentl. Mag. XXXII. 287/1 When you stows eighteen pence in cakes & beer, To treat that dirty trollup, Mall Rosevear.
3. a. To place in a receptacle to be stored or kept in reserve. † Rarely with up.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 111 To stou up his suerd in his furrell. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xlix. v, Death in the pitt his carrion foode doth stow. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vii. 6 His neather lip was..like a wide deepe poke..In which he wont the relickes of his feast And cruell spoyle, which he had spard, to stow. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 224 It was fiercelie assaulted, and as valiantly defended, vntil the fire began to take hold vpon the bulwarke wherein their prouision of gunpowder was stowed. 1683[R. North] Discourse Fish & Fish-ponds xvi. (1713) 62 Some use to put up Fish in Baskets or Hampers for Carriage, stowing them with Grass between. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 53 He's soon equipped for his Journey, for he stows all his Baggage in his Pockets. 1720Ozell Vertot's Rom. Rep. II. ix. 51 [That they] had brought home not only their Purses fill'd with Gold and Silver, but had likewise stow'd it in to Pots and Vessells. 1862Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 64, I..Place 'neath my head the havre-sac Which I have stowed my little all in. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. ii. 33 Raftered lofts to stow the hay. 1877Five Yrs. Penal Serv. iii. 246 She'd smug a whole piece of silk and stow it under her petticoats.
absol.1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xv, The Miller, or old Peel-the-Causeway, will tell you where to stow.
b. jocularly. To find room for (a quantity of food).
1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 54 We are still filled with curiosity..to know how they contrive to stow all they eat.
4. Naut.
a. To place (cargo) in proper order in the hold or other receptacles in a ship; also, to store (provisions, etc.) between decks.
Possibly influenced by the (etymologically unconnected) Du. stouwen in the same sense.
1555Instit. Gentl. E vj, Ptolomye..caused all thys golde and siluer..to bee put into certayne shippes.., and ordeyned that holes shoulde be made in the bottoms of the sayde vessels wherin he had stowed him selfe and the mony. 1598Florio, Stipare,..Also to presse downe hard, to stowe as merchandise is in a ship. 1627Capt. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 33 Stowage or to stow, is to put the goods in Howle in order. 1633T. James Voy. 74 There stowd we a But of Wine also. 1644H. Manwayring Seamans Dict. 103 To Stowe, is to put any goods in Howld (in order, for else we say it is not stowed, but lyes in howld) also we call it stowing betweene the Decks of [read if] any goods or victuals be placed in order upon the Decks: but it is not used in this kind to small things, as to a Chest or the like. 1661Godolphin View Admir. Jurisd. Introd. [a 5 b], He may not over-charge or over-lade his Ship, nor stowe Goods above her birth-mark. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 439 The Goddess shov'd the vessel from the shores, And stow'd within its womb the naval stores. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 3 Here we employ'd most of our Time in getting aboard Water, and stowing our dry Provisions between Decks. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. x. 241 They take on board a much greater quantity of water than can be stowed between decks,..yet..even a three months store of water could never be stowed in a ship so loaded. 1800Coleridge Wallenstein i. vii, I am but the ship in which his hopes were stow'd. 1821Shelley Boat on Serchio 74 Stow the eatables in the aft locker. 1845Stephen Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) II. 134 Goods stowed upon the deck. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 651 The human cargoes were stowed close in the holds of small vessels. 1883Brett in Law Times Rep. (1884) XLIX. 768/2 Part of the timber which was stowed on the deck was jettisoned by the captain of the vessel.
b. To fasten down (persons) under the hatches for confinement or safety.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. ii. iv. E 1 b, Antonio's bride, pure heart, defam'd, and stoad Vnder the hatches of obscuring earth. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 230 The Marriners all vnder hatches stowed. 1622Fletcher Sea-Voy. i. i, Mast. Clap this woman under hatches..For heaven's sake stoaw this woman. 1644Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) II. 192 They..had stowed the lady and her people under hatches.
c. To put (guns, oars, furniture, etc.) in the proper receptacles on board.
c1595Capt. Wyatt Dudley's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 58 [He] caused his leiftenant..to commaunde the gunners to make readie all such great peeces of ordinance as weare not allreadie dismounted and stowed. 1596Savile Libell Sp. Lies 24 As for the Oares..they had stoed them aboarde their Shippes. 1700Dryden Fables, Ceyx & Alcyone 107 Some stow their Oars or stop the leaky Sides. 1726Swift Gulliver i. viii, I took out my other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships. 1857C. Gribble in Merc. Marine Mag. (1858) V. 8 [They] stowed the anchors. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Stowing Hammocks, placing them in a neat and symmetrical order in the hammock-netting.
d. To furl (a sail).
1644H. Manwayring Seamans Dict. 103 Also the placing and laying of the top-sailes in the top, is called Stowing the top-sailes. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine ii. (1780), Dedans, when expressed of the sails, imports furled or stowed. 1823W. Scoresby Jrnl. 302 We close-reefed the top-sails, and stowed the courses. 1836Marryat Pirate i, The men were..stowing away the foretopmast-staysail. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 465, 8 a.m.—Stowed foresail... 10 p.m.—Stowed topgallant sail.
e. to stow down: to put down into a vessel's hold; in quot., to yield (a certain quantity) to be stowed down.
1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. xii. (1858) 178 That whale stowed us down eighty-five barrels of oil.
f. Of a ship: To have stowage-room for; to hold. ? Obs.
1615E. S. Britaines Buss in Arber Eng. Garner III. 635 The Buss can conveniently stow at once but 34 Last of Caske. 1617Fletcher Mad Lover iv. i, Shall thy black Bark those guilty spirits stow That kill themselves for love? 1645Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) II. 240 He entertained as many as his ship could stow.
5. a. Naut. To fill (the hold of a ship, etc.) with cargo; to load (a ship). Also, to fit up (a ship), supply with necessaries.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. i. xvi. 78 Stowing the Hold, is when they take goods into the Hold. 1703La Hontan's Voy. N. Amer. I. 127 Upon that occasion I repeated my Presents; in compensation of which my Pirogues were stow'd with Beef as full as they could hold. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 16 If..a Master overloads his Ship or stows it unskilful. 1845Encycl. Metrop. VI. 383/1 This officer is directed..to obtain the most correct information he can of the manner in which the hold was stowed when she was last in commission. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xix. 234, I find upon my return the brig so stowed and refitted that four days would prepare us for sea.
b. transf. To fill (a receptacle), to pack (full, close) with things or persons; to crowd with contents.
1710C. Shadwell Fair Quaker Deal i. i. 15 [A sailor speaks.] Pshaw, who would not stand all this, to have their upper and lower Teer well Stow'd with Flip? 1758Wesley Jrnl. 11 Oct., The House was stowed as full as possible, but still many were constrained to stand without. 1785Burns To W. Simpson 24 Ye Enbrugh Gentry! The tythe o' what ye waste at cartes Wad stow'd his [Fergusson's] pantry! 1815Scott Guy M. xxxix, The lawyer afterwards compared his mind to the magazine of a pawnbroker, stowed with goods of every description, but [etc.]. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. 207 The passage boat..was stowed close with all people of all nations. 1849Cupples Green Hand iii. (1856) 33 The window [of the shop] was stowed full of cakes of cavendish, twists of negrohead, and coils of pigtail. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 52/1 The morning was spent in stowing the waggons, greasing the wheels, [etc.].
6. stow away.
a. trans. To remove and store until required; to put (a thing) away in a secret or not readily accessible place, or where it will be out of the way; occas. to put or lodge (a person) in out-of-the-way quarters, or in a place of concealment; jocularly, to ‘put out of sight’, ‘dispose of’, eat up (quantities of food).
1795Vancouver Agric. Essex 23 Successive hoeings [of the carrots] will cost about four pounds per acre: and gathering, lopping, tailing, and stowing away, will be about four pounds per acre more. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. vi, He was ‘stowed away’ in a manner perfectly suitable, as the chambermaid thought, to the condition of an outside passenger..who..carried his own portmanteau up stairs. 1833H. Martineau Vanderput i. 1 The bales of merchandize which could not be stowed away before dark. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre v, At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. vii. (ed. 3) 133 We had some difficulty about stowing away the legs of a tall philosopher. 1858M. Tuckett Diary 24 Nov. (c 1975) 21 We stowed away a good breakfast. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vii. 169 They..eat till it becomes physically impossible for them to stow away any more. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 253 On the spiritual theory, past ideas..must be imagined to be stowed away in some fashion, to exist all the time till they happen to be wanted. 1885Chitty in Law Times' Rep. LIII. 83/2 The plate..is now stowed away in the strong room of a bank.
refl.1849Cupples Green Hand xi. (1856) 114 Then I shins aloft up a tree, where I stowed myself away till noon.
b. intr. for refl. To conceal oneself on board a ship, train, or aeroplane; to be a stowaway.
1879Stevenson Ess. Trav., Amateur Emigrant (1905) 62 He had now made up his mind to stow away. 1916Daily Chron. 3 Feb., They escaped and reached Gibralter on a steamer on which they had stowed away. 1929R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica vii. 168 Otto was a Viennese by birth, but had stowed away in a Danube barge when he was ten years old, had taken to the sea, and thereafter generally served in English ships. 1973Times 8 Aug. 7/3 A Brazilian youth was sent home..after stowing away on board a South African Airways aircraft by mistake.
†7. slang.
a. intr. To cease speaking, ‘shut up’. Obs.
b. trans. To desist from.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 84 Stow you, holde your peace. 1676Coles, Stow your whids, c[anting], speak warily. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Stow, you have said enough. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3), Stow you, be silent, or hold your peace. 1806Naval Chron. XV. 18 A sailor..bawled..for those aloft to stow their jabber. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., To stow any business, employment, or mode of life, is the same as to stash it, &c. Ibid., Stow, stow it, or stow-faking, an intimation from a thief to his pall, to desist from what he is about. 1838Dickens O. Twist xv, ‘Stow that gammon,’ interposed the robber, impatiently. 1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 20 Stow your mag, hold your tongue. L[ow] Life. 1865H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xxxiii, ‘Stow larks, Jimmy,’ said the constable. 1882‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags xxv. (1890) 391 ‘Stow that, sir,’ cried Rake, vehemently. 1884Henley & Stevenson Adm. Guinea iii. ii. (1892) 232 Pew. Stow your gab (seizing his wrist).
†8. Obscure or uncertain senses:
a. ? To bring to a stand;
b. ? To arrest, imprison. Obs.
a.c1440Promp. Parv. 478/1 Stowyn, or charyn ageyne[,] cowpyn, idem quod Stoppyn.
b.c1450Cov. Myst., Wom. Adultery (1841) 217 Accusator. Stow that harlot sum erthely wyght... Juvenis. Ȝiff any man stow me this nyth, I xal hym ȝeve a dedly wownde. 1546Gardiner Declar. Joye 15 Ye crye stowe the thefe, to hyde your selfe with the noyse. 1614R. Tailor Hog hath lost Pearl ii. C 3 b, My lord and father hath put them all to the bastinado twice this morning already; not a wayting woman but has been stowed ifaith.
9. Comb. stow-board Mining (see quots.); stow-down, the action of stowing down (cargo); that which is stowed down (see 4 e); stow-master, a man in charge of the stowing of a boat; stow-road, stow-wood (see quots.).
1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms, Northumb. & Durh. 53 *Stow-board, a board driven for convenience of stowage. 1860Mining Gloss., Newcastle Terms 64 Stowbord, a place into which rubbish is put. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal⁓mining 243 Stow-board, a board or heading in which débris is stowed.
1857P. Colquhoun Oarsman's Guide 22 One [man] should do the cooking;..another act as *stow-master.
1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 65 *Stow road, an abandoned road in which debris is stowed.
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 324 *Stow-wood, billets of wood used as chocks for steadying casks in a vessel's hold.
▪ VI. stow, v.2 Now only Sc. and dial.
Also 7 stowe, 7–9 stoo; for other forms see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Stove.
[The various dialectal pronunciations—(staʊ) in Suffolk, |stuːv| in Cumbria, |stu| in Sc.—seem to point to a ME. *stūven, f. *stūf a. ON. stúf-r, stump. (The mod. dial. stow n.4, however, is f. the verb.) Cf. ON. stýfa to cut off.]
trans. To crop, cut close; esp. to cut off (ears), crop the ears of (a sheep); to lop off the branches of (a tree), or the leaves of (a plant); to trim (a hedge); to cut (a cheese) down to the rind.
1513Douglas æneis vi. viii. 41 Half hedis spulȝeit, of stowit his eris tuay. 15..Lyndesay [Satyre 1939] in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 503 Quhae devill maid yow a gentillmann wald nocht stow [1602 cut] your luggis? 1600Pory tr. Leo's Africa vi. 271 They will stow the palme⁓trees also to the very stocks. 1618W. Lawson Orch. & Gard. (1623) 15 If you use to stowe or top your tree too much..such a kinde of stowing is a kinde of smothering, or choaking the sap. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 80 Yow are neaver to carry a lambe but by the forelegges,..and in stowinge of them yow are..to double the eare eaven and to cutte of the toppes as rownde as yow can without forkinge. 1691Ray N.C. Words 70 Stood; Cropt: Sheep are said to be stoo'd whose Ears are cropt, and Men who wear their Hair very short. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 173 By cutting the Palisade down to four or five Foot high, or by stowing it close with the Hedging-Bill. a1774Fergusson Rising of Session Poems (1845) 28 After their yokin, I wat weel, They'll stoo the kebbuck to the heel. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlix, A drunken Jacobite laird wished for a Bothwell-Brigg whig, that ‘he might stow the lugs out of his head.’ 1818― Rob Roy xxxiv, I wad stow the tongue out o' the head o' ony o' them that suld presume to say ower again ony speech held wi' me in their presence. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Stow, rhyming to now. To cut the boughs of a pollard tree close to the head. a1846Rodger Poems (1897) 100 They pu'd their ain fruit, and they stoo'd their ain kail. 1903Westmorld. Gaz. 27 June 5/2 Came astray, in March, rough ewe..stowed near ear, no other marks.
▪ VII. † stow, v.3 Mining. Obs.
[f. stow n.2]
trans. To supply with stows. Also absol.
1550in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 92 Also by the old Custom Miners ought to have Wood of the Kings Wood to stow and timber their Groves under the Earth and above. Ibid. 93 A man may go home and fetch his Tools to work with, and Timber to stow with.
▪ VIII. † stow, int.
Also stowe.
A call addressed to a hawk by a falconer to make it come to his fist.
c1520Skelton Magnyf. 968 Stowe, byrde, stowe, stowe! It is best I fede my hawke now. ― Ware the Hauke 73 The fauconer..cryed, Stow, stow, stow! 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 182 Make them come from it [the perch] to your fist eyther much or little, with calling and chirping to them, saying: Towe, Towe, or Stowe, Stowe, as Falconers vse, and when they come feed them. 1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie etc. 250 But stow bird stow, See now the game's a foote. 1847Halliwell (citing Gent. Rec. ii. 58). |