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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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