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stope

N การ ขุด เหมือง เป็น ขั้นบันได  บ่อ เหมือง 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STOPE

Stope, n. Etym: [Cf. Step, n. & v. i.] (Mining )

 

Defn: A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

 

STOPE

Stope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping. ] (Mining )(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.

 

STOPE; STOPEN

STOPE; STOPEN Stope, Sto "pen, p. p. of Step.

 

Defn: Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs. ] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

stope

stope |stōp stoʊp | noun (usu. stopes ) a steplike part of a mine where minerals are being extracted. verb [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun stoping ) (in mining ) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock ). (as noun stoping ) Geology the process by which country rock is broken up and removed by the upward movement of magma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: apparently related to the noun step .

 

Stopes, Marie

Stopes, Marie |stəʊps | (1880 –1958 ), Scottish birth-control campaigner; full name Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. Her book Married Love (1918 ) was a frank treatment of sexuality within marriage. In 1921 she founded the pioneering Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control in London.

 

Oxford Dictionary

stope

stope |stəʊp | noun (usu. stopes ) a step-like working in a mine. verb [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun stoping ) (in mining ) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock ). (as noun stoping ) Geology the process by which country rock is broken up and removed by the upward movement of magma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: apparently related to the noun step .

 

Stopes, Marie

Stopes, Marie |stəʊps | (1880 –1958 ), Scottish birth-control campaigner; full name Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. Her book Married Love (1918 ) was a frank treatment of sexuality within marriage. In 1921 she founded the pioneering Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control in London.