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stowage|ˈstəʊɪdʒ|
Also 4 stouuage, stouwage, 6–7 stoage, 8 stowidge.
[f. stow v.1 + -age. First in Anglo-Latin form stowagium. Cf. Du. stouwage, stuwage.]
1. The action or operation of stowing cargo on board ship, or goods in a warehouse, etc.
[1352Exch. Acc. Q.R. 20 no. 27 (Publ. Rec. Office) De xd. pro portagio xxvj. dicr' pellium boum..de navi usque in domum Southantonie, et de xij d. pro stouuag' eorundem [sic] ibidem in eadem domo. ]1390Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 22 Et per manus eiusdem pro strycage et stouwage xij doliorum vini et floure, x s. vj d. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 391 By meanes of the sayd marchauntes straungers, it was at this day brought to passe that they myght hyre to them houses for to dwell in, and for stowage of theyr wares. 1586Acts Privy Council (1897) XIV. 217 Certaine cellers and stoarehouses built of late on the cliftes and sea coast for the stoage of pilchardes. 1594J. Davys Seaman's Secr. ii. (1607) 16 Being an instrument portable, of easie stowage. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 5 The quarter Maisters hath the charge of the hold for stowage, rommageing, and trimming the shippe. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 252 Even here they can't enjoy a Cellar for the Stowage of their Liquors. 1784J. King Cook's 3rd Voy. vi. v. III. 294 On Wednesday we had finished the stowage of the holds. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast iii, The mate..has the charge of the stowage, safe⁓keeping, and delivery of the cargo. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, From his early childhood up, his mind had been a place of mechanical stowage. 1883Manch. Exam. 6 Nov. 5/4 Board of Trade officers..will supervise the loading, stowage and general equipment of the vessels. 1891Law Rep., Weekly Notes 61/1 The goods were stolen during the stowage after they were on board by one of the stevedores' men. 1907‘Q.’ (Quiller-Couch) Poison Isl. xi, The coachman..anon breaking off to direct the stowage of a parcel.
transf. (jocular.)1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi, A large dish of scalding..hasty pudding..with which Wagtail was in the habit of commencing his stowage at breakfast.
b. Manner in which the contents of a ship are stowed.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Stowage, the general disposition of the several materials contained in a ship's hold, with regard to their figure, magnitude, or solidity. 1866Arnould Marine Insur. iii. i. (ed. 3) II. 667 The casks however had not shifted their places, in other words, ‘the stowage was not damaged’. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v. Stowage, Owners and masters are legally liable to the losses by bad stowage or deficient dunnage.
†2. A duty levied on goods stowed. Obs.[1434in H. Swinden Gt. Yarmouth (1772) 56 note, Seisiti fuerunt de..alia custuma vocata stowagio, videlicet, duobus denariis de quolibet pondere dolii cujuscunque mercandise..in portu predicto posite seu stowate capiendis.] 3. The condition or process of being stowed or placed in a receptacle.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 192 'Tis Plate of rare deuice, and Iewels Of rich and exquisite forme..And I am something curious, being strange To haue them in safe stowage. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. I. xv. 181 By one in the morning we had our discarded excess of pemmican and the boat once more in stowage.
b. The condition of being closely filled or packed.
1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 438 Clouds of tobacco-smoke..declare the full stowage of each apartment.
4. Room or accommodation for stowing anything; internal capacity of a warehouse or a receptacle of any kind.
1547Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 466 Though he had not convenient stowage for the same [vytayls]. 1579Fenton Guicciard. ii. (1599) 544 They approched it vnder the benefite of a caske or vessell of wood..within which was stowage for 300 men. 1612Bodley Will in Macray Ann. Bodl. Libr. (1890) 406 There must..be very great want of conueyance & stowage for Bookes. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush iv. i, When by your leave..We could have stoage for a little cloth, Or a few wines. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 58 Yet being a heavy commodity, and taking but a little stoage, it is cheaper to carry such commodities out of England. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 166 His industrious minde had vast stoäge for words. 1703La Hontan's Voy. N. Amer. I. 26 But those [canoes] of a larger size will easily afford stowage for fourteen Persons. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. x. 247 The small stowage necessary for the silver. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 164 He must lay in his store [of potatoes] at the beginning of winter... And, where is he to find stowage? He has no caves. 1869Daily News 13 July, The ordinary amount of 700 tons, which is the stowage of both the Northumberland and Agincourt. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ii. 28 This is more important in ships of moderate dimensions having relatively large stowage in the the upper bunkers.
b. jocularly. Capacity for food.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋282 To wish that he had not..crammed the stowage of his body so much. a1716South Serm. (1744) VIII. 8 What were all the fasts..of the late Reformers, but the forbearing of dinners? that is, the enlarging the stowage, and the redoubling the appetite, for a larger supper? 1819Scott Leg. Montrose vi, ‘I have still some stowage left for beef and bannocks,’ said the Captain.
5. A place in which something is stowed.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 409 There must be a supply of soules for men to be borne, either by new creating of new soules, or by assuming them already created, as out of a Promptuary, Repository, or some Stowage of soules. 1641Milton Animadv. 53 They may as well sue for Nunneries, that they may have some convenient stowage for their wither'd daughters. 1710C. Shadwell Fair Quaker Deal v. 60 Faith I'll treat my Jenny [pulls out a large rich Purse] with this Purse of Gold; the weighty Stowage of a fair hundred Guineas. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 314 Malta and Gibralter would be convenient stowages for such recruits. 1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 571 A room under the stowage or cooling-room. Ibid. 572 The floor of the stowage.
b. A receptacle for stowing cargo.
1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney) s.v. Stranded, A cargo packed in Mr. Dickenson's patent iron stowages.
6. That with which a vessel is or is to be stowed.
1622Fletcher Sea-Voy. i. i, Let the Ship sinck or swimme; we ha nere better luck, When we ha such stoage as these trinkets with us, These sweet sin-breeders. 1778Foote Trip Calais i. Wks. 1799 II. 329, I must take t' other trip to the port, for your stowage. 1823Lamb Elia, Old Margate Hoy, Not many rich, not many wise, or learned, composed at that time the common stowage of a Margate packet.
7. Mining. (See quot.)
1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 65 Stowage, or stowing, in longwall, the space from which the mineral has been extracted and which has been filled with debris.
8. attrib., as stowage capacity, stowage house, stowage space; stowage goods (see quot.); stowage room, (a) space for stowing goods; (b) a room in which hops are placed after drying.
1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. Apr. 248 Her *stowage capacity was not over 100 tons.
1863A. Young Naut. Dict. 395 *Stowage goods, those which usually pay freight according to their bulk.
1547Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 466 The furnisshing and coveryng of the *stowage houses.
1763W. Roberts Nat. Hist. Florida 64 To make *stowage⁓room for the corn of the new year. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 754 An adjoining room constructed for the purpose, which is called the stowage room. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, The more ample stowage-room he had for dollars.
1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 74 It is almost impossible to realize the *stowage space of one of these huge liners. |