Definitions for Stopes

Stopes Stopes

Spelling: [stohps]
IPA: /stoʊps/

Stopes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in Stopes (eopsst).

Definitions for Stopes

noun

  1. Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.
  2. 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 Stopes

1740-50; apparently Low German stope; see stoop2

Examples for Stopes

It is on these days that we travel to our Castle of Stopes; as the crow flies, fifteen miles away.

That is Dr. Stopes, the learned geologist, said the hostess, and the Yokohama matron collapsed.

Dr. Stopes makes some very important biological suggestions which should not be lightly dismissed.

Dr. Stopes has attempted to meet the need of such seekers, and her book will certainly be warmly welcomed by them.

Dr. Stopes is by calling a fossil botanist, and her scientific training gives restraint and substance to all her verse.

They have such fits that it Stopes theare wind, and puts me to such frits and feares that I am not myselfe.

Dr. Stopes has written a lucid and serviceable introduction on the N plays, which deserve the study of every student of the drama.

The kilns are double, each possessing two floors, and worked upon the Stopes' system.

Mrs. Stopes herself discovered the documents which disprove her theory.

Word Value for Stopes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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