Stope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An excavation in the form of steps made by the mining of ore from steeply inclined or vertical veins.
  • v. To remove (ore) from or mine by means of a stope.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
  • v. To excavate in the form of stopes.
  • v. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
  • v. To excavate in the form of stopes.
  • v. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
  • past-participle. Stepped; gone; advanced.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An excavation made in a mine to remove the ore which has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
  • In mining, to remove the contents of a vein.
  • n. An obsolete form of stoop.
  • n. Middle English forms of stapen, past participle of step.
    • Word Usage
    "Leahy should stope lecturing on racial politics to amke his poltical point."
    Equivalent
    stopen   
    Verb Form
    stoped    stopes    stoping   
    Form
    stoped    stoping    stope board    stope pillar    stope fillings   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stepped    gone    advanced   
     
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