What is (a) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out called?
stope — (a) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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