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单词 stowage
释义 stow·age
\ˈstōij, -ōēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from stowen to stow + -age
1.
 a. : an act or process of stowing
  < facilitate the stowage of wine casks — G.S.L.Clowes >
 b. : goods in storage or to be stowed
  < crates and other stowage piled up on the dock >
 c. : the manner of stowing
  < faulty stowage … causes a cargo shift — E.B.Garside >
2.
 a. : storage capacity
  < she has excellent stowage for food and water — Peter Heaton >
 b. : a place or receptacle for storage
  < a stowage in a London granary containing 500 tons of … wheat — R.W.Owen >
  < booms situated amidships … constituted the stowage for spare spars — Manual of Seamanship >
3. : storage
 < jewels of rich and exquisite form … and I am something curious, being strange, to have them in safe stowage — Shakespeare >
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