stope

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To excavate in the form of stopes.
  2. simple past of step form-of,obsolete,past
  3. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

词形变化

stopes plural stopes present,singular,third-person stoping participle,present stoped participle,past stoped past

词源

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.
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