Stopes

Meaning of Stopes

plural noun
  1. an excavation in a mine working or quarry in the form of a step or notch.
    they haul the rock out of the stopes using buckets driven by small motorized winches
verb, 3rd person present
  1. (in mining) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock).
    many thousands of tons of stone, richly laden with gold, are ready to be stoped

mid 18th century: apparently related to the noun step.

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Hyphenation of Stopes

Stopes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • Stopes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of Stopes

estops, pestos, posset, ptoses, stoeps

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