Definitions for stope

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stope stope

Spelling: [stohp]

IPA: /stoʊp/

Stope is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in stope (eopst).

Definitions for stope

noun

1. any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to mine or work by stopes.

Origin of stope

1740-50; apparently Low German stope; see stoop²

Examples for stope

He gave me a boost against the smooth wall of the stope, and my clawing fingers caught on the edge of a sharp shelf of stone.

Then there was silence—for Harry had left the fissure to go into the stope and make an investigation.

Stape or stope is the past participle of the strong verb stapen, to step, advance.

And we can't 'it the vein without following the drift to the stope.

But there came a jolt and a jar, the cage settled upon the stope, and the journey was over.

Get through into that stope with your fuse, man; I'll hand you the blasting stuff.

A stope resembles a huge chamber fitted with scaffolding from floor to roof.

For a man moved, silent and furtive, in the tunnel between me and the stope!

Drills and hammers would be buried in the stope, or thrown over the dump.

So we kind of retired and let the men cork you into Thompson's stope to die.