stope
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
stope (plural stopes)
- A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 318:
- The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Verb[edit]
stope (third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple past and past participle stoped)
- (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
- (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Anagrams[edit]
- ETOPS, Poets, Potes, T pose, T-pose, Topes, e-stop, estop, pesto, poets, poset, potes, septo-, stoep, topes
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stuppa, from Ancient Greek στύππη (stúppē).
Noun[edit]
stope f (plural stope)
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
stope
- past participle of stupa
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Verb[edit]
stope (Cyrillic spelling стопе)
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