Crossword clues for stope
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stope \Stope\, Stopen \Sto"pen\, p. p. of Step. Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.]
A poor widow, somedeal stope in age.
--Chaucer.
Stope \Stope\, n. [Cf. Step, n. & v. i.] (Mining) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stope \Stope\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping.] (Mining)
To excavate in the form of stopes.
To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1747, a mining word, from Low German stope "a step," apparently cognate with step (n.). As a verb from 1778, "remove the contents of a vein," literally "to cut in stopes." Related: Stoped; stoping.
Wiktionary
n. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps. vb. 1 (context mining English) To excavate in the form of stopes. 2 (context mining English) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Wikipedia
Stope may refer to:
- Stope, Velike Lašče, a settlement in central Slovenia
- Stope, an underground space produced by Stoping (mining)
Stopes may also refer to:
- Marie Stopes (1880-1958), Scottish palaeobotanist and pioneer in the field of family planning
Usage examples of "stope".
Si was counting out the money when he said he bet she was a kicker father said she is kind as a kitten and dont bite or kick dont she Harry and i said she cant kick becaus she always holds up one leg in the stall, and old Si said whats that and i told him how she coodent kick becaus she held up one leg, and then Gimmy and Shep and Charlie Fifield and old Mister Page all laffed and hollered and stamped round and slaped their legs and said that is a good one, and old Si stoped counting his money and swore aufully and father looked auful mad for a minit and then he said she is wirth every cent of 50 dolars and asked Si what he wood give and Si said 15 dolars and they talked and talked and after a while he give father 25 dolars.
At first it appeared only like a succession of disjointed, broken stones, lying in straggly fashion along the footwall of the drift where it widened into the stope, or upward slant on the vein.
I guessed that this was the depth to which the ancients had worked their stope.
There were shortcuts here, secret passageways, tunnels, stopes, and drifts that would take many years to explore and learn.
Johnny was paid on fat homage the cubic measure of rock broken and taken out of his stope.
Land was realy nice about it but there were boxes and bits of broken bowl on the floor and everyone was staring and I saw that you had wet yourself and I was so cross and I wanted to take you out of the shop but you wouldn't let me touch you and you just lay on the floor and screamed and banged your hands and feet on the floor and the maniger came and asked what the problem was and I was at the end of my tether and I had to pay for two broken mixers and we just had to wait until you stoped screaming.