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Shope vs Stope - What's the difference?

shope | stope |

As verbs the difference between shope and stope

is that shope is (obsolete) (shape) while stope is (mining) to excavate in the form of stopes.

As a noun stope is

a mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

shope

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (shape)
  • * 1530 , , Genesis 2:7, in The Pentatauch , reprinted verbatim by Jacob Isidor Mombert. Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1884, Google Books, [http://books.google.com/books?id=ySMXAAAAYAAJ&pg],
    • Then the Lord God shope man, even of the mould of the earth and breathed into his face the breath of life.

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    stope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
    • The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.

    Derived terms

    * stope assay plan * stope board * stope fillings * stope hoist * stope pillar

    Verb

  • (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
  • (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

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