stowagen.
/ˈstəʊɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈstoʊɪdʒ/ 1. transf. (jocular.)1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 302/1 A large dish of scalding..hasty-pudding..with which Wagtail was in the habit of commencing his stowage at breakfast.
a. The action or operation of stowing cargo on board ship, or goods in a warehouse, etc.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place
stowage1390
stowingc1440
repositure1657
reposition1709
laying1726
society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo > arranging or stowage of cargo
rummaging1480
rummage1486
stowage1595
steeving1664
stowing1900
1352 Exch. 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.]
1390 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 22 Et per manus eiusdem pro strycage et stouwage xij doliorum vini et floure, x s. vj d.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxviiv 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.
1586 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XIV. 217 Certaine cellers and stoarehouses built of late on the cliftes and sea coast for the stoage of pilchardes.
1595 J. Davis Seamans Secrets ii. sig. K2v Being an instrument portable, of easie stowage.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 The quarter Maisters hath the charge of the hold for stowage, rommageing, and trimming the shippe.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 252 Even here they can't enjoy a Cellar for the Stowage of their Liquors.
1784 in J. King & J. King Voy. Pacific III. vi. v. 294 On Wednesday we had finished the stowage of the holds.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iii. 17 The mate..has the charge of the stowage, safe keeping, and delivery of the cargo.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 163 From his early childhood up, his mind had been a place of mechanical stowage.
1883 Manch. Examiner 6 Nov. 5/4 Board of Trade officers..will supervise the loading, stowage and general equipment of the vessels.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 28 Mar. 61/1 The goods were stolen during the stowage after they were on board by one of the stevedores' men.
1907 ‘Q’ Poison Island xi The coachman..anon breaking off to direct the stowage of a parcel.
b. Manner in which the contents of a ship are stowed.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > loading or unloading cargo > manner in which things stowed
stowage1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Stowage, the general disposition of the several materials contained in a ship's hold, with regard to their figure, magnitude, or solidity.
1866 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance (ed. 3) II. iii. i. 667 The casks however had not shifted their places, in other words, ‘the stowage was not damaged’.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Stowage Owners and masters are legally liable to the losses by bad stowage or deficient dunnage.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > other specific duties on goods
stowage1434
terrage1664
1434 in H. Swinden Great 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.
a. The condition or process of being stowed or placed in a receptacle.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > laying up in a place > condition of being
safe stowage1536
stowagea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 193 '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 . View more context for this quotation
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. 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.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > fullness
fullnessa1398
repletiona1398
fullinessa1400
impletion1583
repleteness1603
plenitya1622
expletion1623
plenuma1784
stowage1825
plenitude1857
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 438 Clouds of tobacco-smoke..declare the full stowage of each apartment.
4.
a. Room or accommodation for stowing anything; internal capacity of a warehouse or a receptacle of any kind.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place to accommodate something > room or capacity for storing
stowage1547
1547 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 466 Though he had not convenient stowage for the same [vytayls].
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xi. 660 They approched to it vnder the benefite of a Caske or vessell of wood..within which was stowage for three hundred men.
1612 Bodley Will in Macray Ann. Bodl. Libr. (1890) 406 There must..be very great want of conueyance & stowage for Bookes.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. xii. 52 Yet being a heavy commodity, and taking but a little stoage, it is cheaper to carry such commodities out of England.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4v/1 When by your leave..We could have stoage for a little cloth, Or a few wines.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. ix. 166 in Church-hist. Brit. His industrious minde had vast stoäge for words.
1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. I. 26 But those [canoes] of a larger size will easily afford stowage for fourteen Persons.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. x. 247 The small stowage necessary for the silver.
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. vii. 207 He must lay in his store [of potatoes] at the beginning of winter... And, where is he to find stowage? He has no caves.
1869 Daily News 13 July The ordinary amount of 700 tons, which is the stowage of both the Northumberland and Agincourt.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. ii. 28 This is more important in ships of moderate dimensions having relatively large stowage in the upper bunkers.
b. jocularly. Capacity for food.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [noun] > capacity for food
brookingc1440
belly1555
swallow1592
edacity1626
gurgulio1630
stowage1651
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋282 To wish that he had not..crammed the stowage of his body so much.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (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.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 263 ‘I have still some stowage left for beef and bannocks,’ said the Captain.
5.
a. A place in which something is stowed.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place to accommodate something
lodge1571
lodgement1598
stowagea1641
stowage room1763
space1840
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (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.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 They may as well sue for Nunneries, that they may have some convenient stowage for their wither'd daughters.
1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of 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.
1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 314 Malta and Gibralter would be convenient stowages for such recruits.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 571 A room under the stowage or cooling-room.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 572 The floor of the stowage.
b. A receptacle for stowing cargo.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > receptacle for stowing cargo
stowage1815
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) at Stranded A cargo packed in Mr. Dickenson's patent iron stowages.
6. That with which a vessel is or is to be stowed.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo
fraughta1400
freightc1503
lading1526
furing1535
cargason1583
fraughting1598
fraughtagea1616
stowagea1640
cargo1657
package1669
fare1707
freightage1803
deck-cargo1861
shipment1861
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaa/2 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.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 2 I must take t' other trip to the port, for your stowage.
1828 C. Lamb Old Margate Hoy in Elia 2nd Ser. 31 Not many rich, not many wise, or learned, composed at that time the common stowage of a Margate packet.
7. Mining. (See quot. 1886.)
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > place filled with debris
stow-board1849
pit tip1883
stowage1886
stow-road1886
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. 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.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
stowage capacity n.
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1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Apr. 248 Her stowage capacity was not over 100 tons.
stowage house n.
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1547 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 466 The furnisshing and coveryng of the stowage houses.
stowage space n.
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1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 74 It is almost impossible to realize the stowage space of one of these huge liners.
C2.
stowage goods n. (see quot. 1863).
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods sold by weight > freight paid according to weight
stowage goods1863
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 395 Stowage goods, those which usually pay freight according to their bulk.
stowage room n. (a) space for stowing goods; (b) a room in which hops are placed after drying.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place to accommodate something
lodge1571
lodgement1598
stowagea1641
stowage room1763
space1840
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > room for dried hops
stowage room1763
1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 64 To make stowage~room for the corn of the new year.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 754 An adjoining room constructed for the purpose, which is called the stowage room.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvi. 207 The more ample stowage-room he had for dollars.
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