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Stowage   Listen
noun
Stowage  n.  
1.
The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.
2.
Room in which things may be stowed. "In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures."
3.
The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in safe stowage."
4.
Things stowed or packed.
5.
Money paid for stowing goods.





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"Stowage" Quotes from Famous Books



... rings from the young lord and put them for safety in the horse; Borland suspected, probably charged him with false play; they fought, and his lordship carried away the stick to recover his own; but had failed to find the rings, taking the boxes in the bamboo for all there was of stowage in it. ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... safe disposal of the last batch of cotton goods in the forward hold—and had just found it necessary to explain the correct principles of stowage with sailor-like fluency—when a young lady, accompanied by a dock laborer carrying a leather portmanteau, spoke ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... hermetically nailed up. It was hoped that they would resist if some formidable billow should fall on the ship. If, by any mischance, they should yield under the weight of these avalanches, the ship might fill and sink. Very fortunately, also, the stowage had been well attended to, so that, notwithstanding the terrible tossing of the vessel, her cargo was not ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... two feet in breadth, and tapers off from the centre to the bow and stern, almost to a mere point. The frame is of wood covered with seal-skin, having an aperture in the centre which barely admits of the stowage of the nether man. These canoes are calculated for the accommodation of one person only; yet it is possible for a passenger to embark upon them, if he can submit to the inconvenience—and risk—of lying at full length on his belly, without ever stirring ...
— Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory - Volume II. (of 2) • John M'lean
... mate; and I, with this carefulness of stowage still before my eyes, proceeded to enforce ...
— The Economist • Xenophon


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