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stowage [ˈstəʊɪdʒ] n 1. space, room, or a charge for stowing goods 2. the act or an instance of stowing or the state of being stowed 3. something that is stowed The method of placing cargo into a single hold or compartment of a ship to prevent damage, shifting, etc. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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He gives you the official teaching on the whole subject, is precise as to rules, mentions illustrative events, quotes law cases where verdicts turned upon a point of stowage. These, in their several ways of stowage, filled the gardens; and shedding a perfume, not of the most delicious nature, in the air, filled it besides with yelps, and screams, and howling. So with poor Queequeg, who, as harpooneer, must not only face all the rage of the living whale, but --as we have elsewhere seen -- mount his dead back in a rolling sea; and finally descend into the gloom of the hold, and bitterly sweating all day in that subterraneous confinement, resolutely manhandle the clumsiest casks and see to their stowage. |
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