stow

See also: Stow and -stow

English

From Middle English stowe, from Old English stōw (“a place, spot, locality, site”), from Proto-Germanic *stōwō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”). Cognate with Old Frisian stō (“place”), Icelandic stó (“fireplace”), Dutch stouw (“place”). See also -stow.

stow (plural stows)

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōwōną, *stōwijaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”), Danish stuve (“to stow”), Swedish stuva (“to stow”).

stow (third-person singular simple present stows, present participle stowing, simple past and past participle stowed)

To put something away in a compact and tidy manner.
To put something away, to store it in a space-saving manner and over a long time.
(by extension) To dispose or put somebody somewhere.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii], page 3:
  Ariel: […] The Marriners all vnder hatches ſtowed, / Who, with a Charme ioynd to their ſuffred labour / I haue left aſleep : […]

to put something away in a compact and tidy manner

to put something away to store it in a space saving manner and over long time

From Proto-Germanic *stōwō (“a place, stowage”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place, put”).

stow f (nominative plural stōwa)

a place
Ne sċoldest þū gān tō swā frēcenre stōwe.
You shouldn't have gone to such a dangerous place.

Declension of stow (strong ō-stem)

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