Stope vs Stoupe - What's the difference?

stope | stoupe |


As verbs the difference between stope and stoupe

is that stope is (mining) to excavate in the form of stopes while stoupe is .

As a noun stope

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

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.
  • Anagrams

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    stoupe

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark I:
  • a stronger than I commeth after me, whos shue latchett I am not worthy to stoupe doune and unlose.