Stopt vs Stope - What's the difference?
stopt | 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.
As verbs the difference between stopt and stope
is that stopt is 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.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.