Stoped vs Stoled - What's the difference?
stoped | stoled |
(stope)
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
(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.
Having or wearing a stole.
(nonstandard) (steal)
As verbs the difference between stoped and stoled
is that stoped is past tense of stope while stoled is past tense of steal.As an adjective stoled is
having or wearing a stole.stoped
English
Verb
(head)stope
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.