Stope
- v. i. A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
- v. t. To excavate in the form of stopes.
- v. t. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.