Definition/Meaning of stow

• English - Noun: stow (plural stows) (rare) A place , stead .
• English - Verb: stow (third-person singular simple present stows, present participle stowing, simple past and past participle stowed) (transitive) To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. (transitive) To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. 1922, James A. Cooper, Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: Yet everybody knows that a cargo…
• English - Interjection: stow (obsolete, transitive) A cry used by falconer s to call their bird s back down to hand. c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66, 69–74: His seconde hawke wexyd gery […]on the rode loftShe perkyd her to rest.The fauconer then was prest,Came runnynge with a dow,And cryed, ‘…
• English - Anagrams: ow'st, swot , tows , twos , wost , wots
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English stowe , from Old English stōw (“place, location”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōu, from Proto-Germanic *stōō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”), German Stau (“congestion”). See also -stow . Etymology 2. From Middle English…