stow-bladen.
Mining.
Each of two upright pieces of wood, a foot in length, connected at the top with the sole-trees of a stow or stowce.
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1681 T. Houghton Compl. Miner (E.D.S.) Gloss. 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.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. K1 Two Irons..are put into each end of the Turntree, and run in the Slots of the Stoblades.
1851 T. Tapping Chron. Customs Lead Mines Gloss. 33/1 Two upright pieces of wood called stow-blades, about one foot long, [etc.].
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