Stopes
Meaning of Stopes
- an excavation in a mine working or quarry in the form of a step or notch.
they haul the rock out of the stopes using buckets driven by small motorized winches
- (in mining) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock).
many thousands of tons of stone, richly laden with gold, are ready to be stoped
mid 18th century: apparently related to the noun step.
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Hyphenation of Stopes
Stopes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- Stopes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of Stopes
estops, pestos, posset, ptoses, stoeps
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