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Webster 1913 Edition
Stope
Stope
,Noun.
(Mining)
A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stope
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stoped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoping
.] (Mining)
(a)
To excavate in the form of stopes.
(b)
To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.