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# stow

«stow» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pack things away neatly in a safe place, often on a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (stows, stowed, stowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stow is to pack things away neatly in a safe place, often on a ship or in a bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#m1)

2) To stow away is to hide on a ship or train so you can travel without paying or being seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

putting treasure, food or goods safely away, often on a ship; in tales a hero stows gold on board; a boy who hides on a ship is a stowaway

### examples

- Stow your bag under the seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#x1)
- He stowed the gold in a box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#x2)
- A boy stowed away on the ship to see the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#x3)
- The sailors stowed the barrels below deck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.