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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Stope

Stōpe, n.

noun

[From step.] (Mining.) An horizontal bed or layer forming one of a series of steps, into which the upper surface of an excavation is cut. Pryce.

Stōpe, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. STOPED (stōpt); p. pr. & vb. n. STOPING.] (Mining.) (a.) To excavate in the form of stopes or steps. (b.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.