Also 5 Sc. stollin. [f. STOW v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb in various senses.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 478/1. Stowynge, or yn dede puttynge [v.r. in stede puttinge] locacio, collocacio. Ibid. S(t)owwynge, or a-geyne cowpynge or chargynge [v.rr. charynge, stowynge or ageyne chasinge], obsistencia, resistencia.
1467. Sc. Acts Jas. III. (1814), II. 87. That na merchandis gudis be revin nor spilt with vnresonabel stollin.
1619. in Foster, Eng. Factories India (1906), 137. They beg … ‘that good regard also be had unto the qualitie, packinge, and stowinge of all the comodities you send.’
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Astley’s. Then pa drilled the boys, and directed the stowing away of their pocket-handkerchiefs.
1900. F. T. Bullen, With Christ at Sea, xiii. 260. My first duty was to superintend the stowing of the cargo.
2. concr. (See quot.)
1860. Mining Gloss., Newcastle Terms, 64. Stowing, rubbish put into old workings to fill them up.
3. Comb.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Aug., 11/1. There will be a stowing room for 20 tons of provisions.
1896. Daily News, 19 March, 3/6. The coal bunkers will have a stowing capacity of nine hundred tons.
