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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stow
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ He would have time to stow away the kohlrabi, the offal and the edenwort.
▪ The door closed, and Renwick could safely stow away his cigarette case.
▪ Our driver got the mail bags stowed away, and made his horses strike out in good style.
▪ The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.
▪ It seems, Freddie as he's been named, stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands.
▪ Once the luggage was stowed away on board Penry lifted her on the deck of the Angharad and cast off.
▪ The antique musical instruments had been stowed away in the glass-fronted cabinets.
▪ At the age of thirteen Billing stowed away on a ship bound for Delagoa Bay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All of our camping equipment is stowed in the attic.
▪ In the daytime the mattress is stowed away in that cupboard.
▪ She stowed her luggage on the rack above her head and then sat down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I paid the driver, stowed the chair, and guided the old man to some seats up the back.
▪ It would also be easy to take down and stow in stormy weather.
▪ Our driver got the mail bags stowed away, and made his horses strike out in good style.
▪ The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.
▪ These four tubs had been stowed in the open midships section by the base of the foremast.
▪ They should be packaged and stowed securely.
▪ Trickles of rainwater dripped into the cabins and soaked any clothing that was not safely stowed in watertight kit-bags.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stow

Stow \Stow\ (st[=o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stowed (st[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Stowing.] [OE. stowen, fr. stowe a place, AS. stow; cf. Icel. eldst[=o]a fireplace, hearth, OFries. st[=o], and E. stand. [root]163.]

  1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.

    Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides.
    --Dryden.

  2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.

    Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter?
    --Shak.

  3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stow

c.1300, "to put, place (somewhere)," verbal use of Old English noun stow "a place, spot, site, locality" (common in place names), from Proto-Germanic *stowo- (cognates: Old Frisian sto "place," Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stouwen, Dutch stuwen "to stow," Old High German stouwen "to stop, check," German stauen "to stow, pack; bring to a halt, hem in"), from PIE *stau- "stout, standing, strong," extended form of root *sta- "to stand" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic stavljo "to place," Lithuanian stoviu "to stand;" see stet). The nautical sense of "put away to be stored, pack" (1550s) was enforced by Dutch stouwen "to cram, pack up close." Related: Stowed; stowing.

Wiktionary
stow

Etymology 1 n. (context rare English) A place. Etymology 2

vb. 1 to put something away in a compact and tidy manner 2 to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over a long time

WordNet
stow

v. fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart"

Gazetteer
Stow, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 32139
Housing Units (2000): 12852
Land area (2000): 17.112144 sq. miles (44.320248 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.230406 sq. miles (0.596748 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.342550 sq. miles (44.916996 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74944
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.176623 N, 81.436231 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44224
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Stow

Stow may refer to:

Stow (surname)

Stow is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

  • Alexander W. Stow (1805–54), American jurist
  • Augustine Stow (1833–1903), South Australian politician
  • Baron Stow, (1801–69), American Baptist minister, writer and editor
  • David Stow (1793–1864), Scottish educationalist
  • Gardner Stow (born c. 1790), American lawyer
  • George William Stow (1822–82), English-born South African geologist and ethnologist
  • Horatio J. Stow (c. 1809 – 1859), New York lawyer and politician
  • James Stow (c. 1770–in or after 1823), English engraver
  • Jefferson Stow (1830–1908), English-born newspaper editor and magistrate in South Australia
  • Jennifer Stow, scientist
  • John Stow (c. 1525 – 1605), English historian and antiquarian
  • Sir John Montague Stow (1911–97), politician from Barbados
  • John Stow (priest), Archdeacon of Bermuda from 1951 to 1961
  • Joshua Stow (1762–1842), founder of Stow, Ohio
  • Marietta Stow (1830 or 1837–1902), American suffragist
  • Percy Stow (1876–1919), British director of short films
  • Randolph Stow (1935–2010), Australian writer
  • Randolph Isham Stow (1828–78), English-born Australian judge
  • Silas Stow (1773–1827), American politician
  • Thomas Stow (1801–62), English-born Australian pioneer Congregational clergyman

Usage examples of "stow".

Rick stowed the probe in the equipment bay and followed the two women into the lander, but it had even less room than the command module so he stayed in the tunnel, feeling a bit disoriented as he looked down from above on the angular instrument panel and flight controls.

I am sensitive to such things, and sleeping in my workroom, and having to tidy it up and stow away my bedclothes, and then settle down to a long day with my aporetics, gave me a sense of having lost caste, of having come down in the world, which was quite unreasonable but none the less real.

With an ease he knew would have surprised his Lucien, Tsecha stowed supplemental shooter power packs and assorted scanning and blocking devices within other pockets in the suit.

Barak rumbled as he stowed his bearskin cloak and helmet in one of the packs.

The spare breechings should never be stowed near the galley nor Engine-room, lest they be damaged by heat and moisture.

I then led them the couple of blocks to the Brimmer Street Garage where my Morgan was stowed.

Ross stowed his share of the dynamite more cautiously, unlocked the brakes, put the bulldozer in gear, and backed across the square.

All was stowed away, and happily there was no want of room in Granite House, in which they might have housed all the treasures of the island.

The Egyptian meteorologist acted like a busybody, moving from person to person, pointing out small empty lockers for stowing equipment.

When Hanshiro handed him the rolled paper, he stowed it carefully in the gap where the left side of his jacket overlapped the right.

Zavala stow the Skyrider and parasail, then he opened a waterproof bag and dug out a sketch pad and pen.

Their kitchen was a percolator, a two-burner electric stove, and a pint-sized electric icebox in the bathroom, and their dining-room did not for the moment exist, since it was a folding card-table stowed under the bed.

Everything that was on an open shelf or countertop had to be stowed and secured, a rubber band snapped around the roll of toilet paper, the water heater turned off, food in the fridge and cupboards cushioned against breakage, rugs rolled and furniture moved to pull in the living area and wardrobe slide-outs, awning stowed, and all the carefully reconnected propane appliances disconnected again.

The dishes finally finished and stowed in their racks, it appeared that we were free for a blessed couple of hours: reassembly on the dot of five-thirty.

Flash Rego stowed the wad of money carelessly into one of his pockets.