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stope

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5 lettersPronunciation [stoʊp]Sorted eopstStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

Word origin

Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from a German Low German word like Stoop (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.

Used in a sentence

  • The other smell […] that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.

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