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Stowage

noun
1.
The charge for stowing goods.
2.
A room in which things are stored.  Synonyms: storage room, storeroom.
3.
The act of packing or storing away.  Synonym: stowing.





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"Stowage" Quotes from Famous Books



... intended for the relief of the destitute Irish. Storage to any extent was offered on the same terms. Ships of war approached our shores, eagerly seeking not to destroy life but to preserve it, their guns being taken out in order to afford more room for stowage."[304] ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... 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
... field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread. dimension, length &c. 200; distance &c. 196; size &c. 192; volume; hypervolume. latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver. spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage[obs3], margin; opening, sphere, arena. open space, free space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness, wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna[obs3]. abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Stowage" :   stockroom, stow, room, chandlery, strongroom, storage, buttery, larder, charge, lumber room, pantry, stock room


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