stowage
/ˈstəʊɪdʒ
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of stowing something: the art of stowage [as modifier]: keep each tool in its proper stowage place...
- Meanwhile, parts of the hangar and flight deck aft were used as stowage areas for Royal Marines equipment.
- About halfway back are two cabins, one with bunks, the other a double, as well as two heads and separate sinks and stowage lockers.
- A second fire started six hours later in an oxygen generator in the weapon stowage compartment, but that fire was put out within two minutes.
1.1Space for stowing something in: there is plenty of stowage beneath the berth [count noun]: for keeping ropes tidy the cockpit has two rope stowages...
- The seat was bonded to the deck and offered plenty of watertight stowage below and a reversible back-rest which was moulded to snugly fit both passenger and helmsman.
- You could easily cover long journeys in the car and the surprisingly spacious trunk would provide plenty of stowage.
- Another problem, if one retains four full seats, is a significant cut in the boot space so as to provide stowage for the folded roof.
Rhymes
- electromotively
- electromotive series
- electromotivity
- electromotograph
- electromotor
- electro-muscular
- electro-musical
- electromyogram
- electromyograph
- electromyographic
- electromyographically
- electromyography
- electron
- electron acceptor
- electron affinity
- electronarcosis
- electronarcotic
- electron beam
- electron camera
- electron cloud
- electron-deficient
- electron-dense
- electron density
- electron diffraction
- electron donor