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plural stopes
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps. quotations examples
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.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 318
third-person singular simple present stopes, present participle stoping, simple past and past participle stoped
(mining) To excavate in the form of stopes. examples
(mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. examples