stowingn.1
/ˈstəʊɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb in various senses.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun]
layingc1330
pitchinga1398
settinga1398
couchingc1400
stowingc1440
placingc1449
stelling1560
disposition1563
location1568
planting1585
situation1589
collocation1605
situating1611
disposurea1625
depositure1635
allodgement1639
instalment1646
fixation1652
deposition1659
lodgement1713
repositing1713
emplacement1742
bestowal1773
locating1774
disposal1828
placement1844
allocation1846
enlodgement1884
siting1902
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place
stowage1390
stowingc1440
repositure1657
reposition1709
laying1726
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo > arranging or stowage of cargo
rummaging1480
rummage1486
stowage1595
steeving1664
stowing1900
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 478/1 Stowynge, or yn dede puttynge [v.r. in stede puttinge] locacio, collocacio.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 478/1 S(t)owwynge, or a-geyne cowpynge or chargynge [v.rr. charynge, stowynge or ageyne chasinge], obsistencia, resistencia.
1467 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) II. 87 That na merchandis gudis be revin nor spilt with vnresonabel stollin.
1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 137 They beg..‘that good regard also be had unto the qualitie, packinge, and stowinge of all the comodities you send’.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 302 Then pa drilled the boys, and directed the stowing away of their pocket handkerchiefs.
1900 F. T. Bullen With Christ at Sea xiii. 260 My first duty was to superintend the stowing of the cargo.
2. concrete. (See quot. 1860.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish
rough1677
old man1747
small1778
stent1778
vestry1784
gobbin1811
spoil1838
stowing1860
dump1865
muck1883
spoil-heap1883
mine-dump1909
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Newcastle Terms) 64 Stowing, rubbish put into old workings to fill them up.
3. In combinations.
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1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Aug. 11/1 There will be a stowing room for 20 tons of provisions.
1896 Daily News 19 Mar. 3/6 The coal bunkers will have a stowing capacity of nine hundred tons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† stowingn.2
Obsolete.
1. The action of the verb; lopping of trees.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping
shreddingc1000
putation?1440
snathing1485
loppingc1511
brushing1513
topping1513
twisting1535
pruning1548
heading1552
browsing1574
lop1575
disbranching1600
debranching1601
stocking1611
stowing1618
polling1626
supputation1656
summer pruning1669
snedding1720
shrouding1725
pollarding1794
thinning1800
brashing1950
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vii. 16 Such a kinde of stowing is a kinde of smothering, or choaking the sap.
2. concrete in plural. (See quot. 17882.) Scottish.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 63 O' meals ait-parritch was the best, Or stowins, e'en right poorly drest.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. Gloss. Stowins, small cuttings taken from young greens.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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