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单词 stowaway
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stowawayn.

Brit. /ˈstəʊəweɪ/, U.S. /ˈstoʊəˌweɪ/
Etymology: < verbal phrase stow away: see stow v.1 6.
1. A person who hides in a ship in order to escape payment of passage-money, to get to sea unobserved, or to escape by stealth from a country. Hence also, one who steals a passage by aeroplane.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > one who or that which conceals > person in hiding > on transport
stowaway1850
1850 Morning Chron. 22 July 6/1 All the passengers were summoned on deck that their names might be read over, their tickets produced, and a search made in the steerage, and in every hole and corner of the ship, for ‘stow-aways’.
1855 Ann. Reg. 1854 ii. Chron. 194/2 He had been seized as a ‘stow-away’.
1885 American 11 78 Forty-seven stowaways were found in the hold of one vessel.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 439 A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
1973 Times 8 Aug. 7/3 (heading) Stowaway takes wrong flight.
2. gen. Something stowed away. Also, a place where things may be stowed.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store
store1487
store1520
reserving1530
staple1549
forestore1556
conserve1586
budget1597
magazine1615
stock1638
stowaway1913
dump1915
bank1918
stockpile1942
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
1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir iii. 88 For all these weeks Charles had never touched the cupboard except to insert some further stowaway.
1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xx Of all the stowaway places under my control..only one is locked.
1928 Daily Express 21 Mar. 5/3 The window~seat top lifts up, and this makes another good stowaway for toys.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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