To cut off; crop; lop.
To resist; hinder; stop.
To put out of sight or hearing; be silent about.
To make resistance; resist.
To dry In an oven.
To conceal one's self on a ship (with a view to a free passage): with away. See stowaway.
To put in a suitable or convenient place or position; put in a place aside or out of the way; lay up; put up; pack; especially, to pack in a convenient form: as, to stow bags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow sheaves.
To accumulate or compactly arrange anything in; fill by packing closely: as, to stow a box or the hold of a ship.
To contain; hold.
To furl or roll up, as a sail.
In mining, to fill up (vacant spaces) with stowing.
To bestow; give; grant.
To intrust; commit; give in charge.
To furnish as the stowdown: as, the whale stowed down 75 barrels of oil.
noun.
In tinplate manuf., the structure which contains the furnace and the series of five pots.