What is "unstow"

Usage examples of "unstow".

The dogs alone remain inactive during this busy scene, being kept harnessed to their burdens until the men have leisure to unstow the sledges, and hang upon the trees every species of provision out of their reach.

There they unstowed and assembled and inflated a large orange life raft complete with outboard motor, and all, including the pilots, transferred into it.

Someone had thoughtfully left a freefall shower sack unstowed from its closet, but he was in no mood to fight with the gelatinous bag even though it seemed alert and helpful, opening like a flower at his smelly presence.

At the same time, the deformable mirror turret in the nose unstowed and pointed itself at the Libyan fighters.

There was nobody in the right position up there now, but eventually some poor soul was going to catch hell he didn't deserve for leaving tools unstowed, and I'd have felt sorry about that if I hadn't been distracted by overwhelming relief that my baby girl had not just killed herself (and incidentally destroyed history) Transiting into some solid object aboard the Columbia.

Reaching up, Cleary grasped the control toggles of the left and right risers, giving them a simultaneous tug and unstowing the breaks, placing the canopy in full flight mode.

I nodded, and we set about unstowing our belongings and rubbing the horses down.