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• Check all personal items are securely stowed in the overhead lockers.From the entry securely
• My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.From the entry suitcase
• A Stoppered Coil is also the stow for unknottable items such as garden hose and wire rope.2009, Brion Toss, Chapman Knots for Boaters, page 132. From the entry unknottable
• A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes.2006, David House, Cargo Work. From the entry overstow
• Their boats, loaded with six months’ provisions and a petrary for shooting crucifixes, were stowed aboard.1969, Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother. From the entry petrary
• He'd have to stow the Gun somewhere; no place to conceal it in the skintight bodysuit.1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam, published 1976, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry skintight
• Just to spite himself, he stowed the bottle away in his bag and went nipless to bed.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 16. From the entry nipless
• He showed Nicol into the kitchen and stowed the letter in the hallstand drawer alongside the other unopened envelopes.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 16. From the entry hallstand
• In no time he has stowed bags and suitcases into the boot and the back of the car.2016, Helen Dunmore, Exposure, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry two twos
• I stow away your miserable things in this!2001, M. Bhagat, Anaro and Other Stories, Orient Blackswan, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry jhola
• She stowed the ginch she had just received as a gift in the dresser out of harm's way.2000, John Farrow, City of Ice, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry ginch
• This would be a very awkward item to stow on board, to say nothing about storing additional storm oil.2000, Earl R. Hinz, Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors & Drogues, Paradise Cay Publications, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry storm oil
• If stowed in MBTs, solid ballast will reduce the blowable volume and so affect the reserve of buoyancy.1995, Roy Burcher, Louis J. Rydill, Concepts in Submarine Design. From the entry blowable
• Hoage, of Pacific First Federal, stowing away a very early breakfast at Jim Lesher’s donutery on 6th avenue, on Monday.1940 August 15, The Tacoma News Tribune, 57th year, number 329, Tacoma, Wash., page 7. From the entry donutery
• From the tonneau of Bentley's car the sheriff and Garland removed the groceries and sick-room supplies, stowing them in the kyacks.1920, Peter B. Kyne, “The Understanding Heart”, in Ch.XV (Usenet). From the entry tonneau
• Laila hoped to have a thousand afghanis or more stowed away, half of which would go to the bus fare from Kabul to Peshawar.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 241. From the entry afghani
• Inside, under the canvas top, there was a chattering mutteration, as if all the items so carefully stowed away were talking together.1989, Elizabeth Yates, Carolina's Courage, page 41. From the entry mutteration
• The giant drifter is stowed in the foc'sl in the rolled condition, being figure eighted against the side of the bow on hooks.1980, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Omnibus Territorial Legislation--1980: Hearing Before…. From the entry figure eight
• The load is made up in the freight depot and stowed and tied down on flooring with rollers underneath, known as cargons.1968, Ronald Trevor Alexander, High Adventure: From Balloons to Boeings in New Zealand, New Zealand National Airways Corporation, page 72. From the entry cargon
• Not even an occasional clod of earth stowed in the middle of a sack, or a few hefty paddy-melons, could make the toil profitable.1941, Kylie Tennant, The Battlers. From the entry paddymelon
• It is amazing how hook-up leads and jump leads can tangle, even mate with each other, no matter how carefully you coil them and stow them away.2015 June 18, canaldrifter, “The Buggrance Factor”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Apr 2025. From the entry crocodilly
• Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking patties of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 150. From the entry Hazara
• The forehold was a store for sails, warps and other gear and its floor covered a dank space known as the dill room where imperishable stores were stowed.2002, John Leather, “The Ketch”, in The Gaff Rig Handbook: History, Design, Techniques, Developments, 2nd edition, London: Adlard Coles…. From the entry forehold
• Stowed away in the plane Jack had a signal pistol and several red and green cartridges, but until a search plane appeared the flares would be useless.1946, Clayton Knight, The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 262. From the entry flare
• Trimmers are used to stow the coal in the vessel, and, in the case of vessels with awkwardly-situated cargo spaces, a great deal of trimming may be involved.1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11. From the entry trimmer

Meaning of stow

1. noun A place, stead.
2. verb To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place.
3. verb To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time.

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How do you use stow in a sentence?

Stow is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Check all personal items are securely stowed in the overhead lockers.”

What is a short sentence with stow?

“I stow away your miserable things in this!”

What does stow mean?

Stow means a place, stead.