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Stope   Listen
verb
Stope  v. t.  (past & past part. stoped; pres. part. 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stope" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bonanza chute made gold because they happened to hit it at a crossing on the four-hundred-foot level. At the six-hundred, as we know, it was almost like a chimney of ore that is playing out as we drift west. If the mill had not been put out of business, we were going to stope it out, though, and prove whether it was ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton



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