I finally learned, however, that a station is a place cut out for a stable or for the passage of cars, or other things requiring space; while a stope is a room carried to the level of the top of the main crosscut.
It is called a stopebecause the ore is "stoped" out of it.
Exerting every particle of intelligence I possessed, I could not make out the difference between a stope and a station, except that a stope had the higher ceiling.
The Second reassone is, Becaus that your helth springeth of the worde of God, for he workith all thing by his word: it war tharefoir ane unrychteous thing, yf ye should stope your earis from me teiching trewlye the word of God.
He'd the gall to tell us to our faces that we'd no pull over him, because we were doing private work in Thompson's stope and stealing Wilbraham's gold out of it.
I was in Thompson's abandoned stope all right,--only Macartney had sealed up the only way I could ever get out!
Get through into that stope with your fuse, man; I'll hand you the blasting stuff.
For all we know he'll guess you must have got out of Thompson's stope somehow, and dig away his rock fence to see!
In two more minutes Dick would have come to hunt Thompson's stope for me, and we had no guns to stave him off.
I swung myself up on it, mechanically, and felt my feet go through the solid stope wall, into space.
I had trouble with them over some drilling the morning you left; and when I went back to the stope after seeing you and Miss Paulette off, they'd cleared out.
So we kind of retired and let the men cork you into Thompson's stope to die.
The minute they had reached thestope he unearthed the machine from its hiding place and got into conversation with the friendly Guddu.
In the stope the Cornishman crawled carefully to the staging, and standing on tiptoes, pressed his ear against the vein above him.
The stope was deeper now than on the first day, but not enough to make up for the vast amount of ore which had been taken out of the mine in the meanwhile.
A day's work, the booming charges, and they returned to the stope to find that the vein had neither lessened nor grown greater.
Within the tunnel they went, to follow along its regular, rising course to the stope where, on that garish day when Taylor Bill and Blindeye Bozeman had led the enthusiastic parade through the streets, the vein had shown.
Seizing his carbide lamp, Fairchild made for the opening and crawled through, hurrying onward toward the chamber where the stope began, calling Harry's name at every step, in vain.
Then there was silence--for Harry had left the fissure to go into the stopeand make an investigation.
My partner and I drilled a hole in the foot wall of the stope where we were working, hoping to find the rest of a vein that was pinching out on us.
A povre widwe, somdel stope in age, Was whylom dwelling in a narwe cotage, Bisyde a grove, stonding in a dale.
And in the stope so far below, a new and highly authoritative voice blared from the speaker.
You'll find a shift-boss, with a crew of nineteen, up in Stope Sixty.
And for these adversaries, if they have but halfe y^e witte to their malice, they will stope my course when they see it intended, for which this delaying serveth them very opportunly.
At the same time the phrase fer y-stope in yeres is from Chaucer's somdel stape in age, C.
The ore, he judged, had long since been taken out and down through the stope into the tunnel and so out through the main portal.
A crude ladder against the wall of a roomy stope beyond the door did not in the least surprise him.
Laborers refused to work in a certain stope or to push the tram cars through a long tunnel from the stope to the ore bins.
To recover pillars left below sublevels is a rather difficult task, especially if the old stope above is caved or filled.
Filling the empty stope is usually done by opening frequent passes along the base of the filled stope above, and allowing the material of the upper stope to flood the lower one.
It is never rightly introduced unless the stope is worked back from winzes through which the ore broken can be let down to the level below, as shown in Figures 22 and 23.
In this system of stope support the ore is broken at intervals alternating with filling.
A combined stope is made by the coincident working of the underhand and "rill" method (Fig.
Both flat-backed and rill-stope methods of breaking are employed in conjunction with filled stopes.
For flat veins with strong walls, it has a great superiority in that the stope is carried back more or less parallel with the winzes, and thus broken ore after blasting lies in a line on the gradient of the stope.
Where it is desired to maintain the winzes after stoping, they must either be strongly timbered and lagged on the stope side, be driven in the walls, or be protected by a pillar of ore (Fig.
Waste-filled stope with dry-walling of levels and passes.
Millie Stope still stood with open, hanging hands, a countenance of expectant dread.
There was a stir on the portico as he approached, the flitting of an unsubstantial form; but, hastening, John Woolfolk arrested Lichfield Stopein the doorway.
Millie Stope said: "I know so little about the love you mean.
Will you stop him while I get Miss Stopeinto the tender?
The face of Millie Stope floated about him like a magical gardenia in the night of the matted trees.
A precarious stair mounted to the flooring above, and Millie Stope made her way upward, followed by Woolfolk.
Millie Stope was seated on the portico, and laid a restraining hand on her father's arm as he rose, attempting to retreat at Woolfolk's approach.
The cabin door swung open, and a sudden lurch flung Millie Stopeagainst the wheel.
Lichfield Stope had fallen back with his countenance lying on a doubled arm, as if he were attempting to hide from his extinguished gaze the horror of his end.
Millie Stopecowered in a voiceless accession of terror; but John Woolfolk, lamp in hand, moved to the door.
If you will carry it back for me," Millie Stope requested; "we have no ice; I must put it in water.
Yet his pity for Millie Stope mounted obscurely, bringing with it thoughts, dim obligations and desires, to which he had declared himself dead.
A long, hollow wail rose from the land, and Millie Stopemoved sharply.
Millie Stope clung to the deck rail, sobbing with exhaustion.
She's that Cornish seeress, that predicted the big cave in the stope of the Last Chance mine, and now I know she's good.
They're nervy and yet they're careful and so I always hire 'em; but when we were doing this work down in the stope of the Last Chance, they began talking about Mother Trigedgo.
Well, we waited till after one before we went to the collar and just as I was stepping into the cage the whole danged stope caved in!
Really, a stope sounds like something that would 'get you' in the night!
Quick, down this way, or you'll hear Pangburn telling some one what a stope is, and think what a thing that would be to carry in your head.
But when he fell out with old John Holman he--well, there was an explosion underground and the glory-hole stope caved in.
There was plenty of ore on the dump for the moment but, while he separated it from the waste and shipped it to town, he caught up the falling ground in the drifts and prepared to stope out the scheelite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
