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  • n  the act of packing or storing away
  • v  fill by packing tightly

  • Many a politician has livened his campaign by touring an Indian reservation, posing for photographers in a feathered headdress, then stowing the war bonnet in a closet.
  • While beaten English golfers were stowing their clubs at Garden City and beaten English poloists were stowing their mallets at Meadow Brook, victorious English sailors stowed .
  • Similarly, though critics contend that there is a kind of Parkingson's Law that causes any new car-stowing garage to overfill the instant it opens, many cities are making room .
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  • Eileen Collins in CNN International
    Before the crew's final scheduled sleep break in space, Discovery Commander Eileen Collins told CNN the astronauts had spent Sunday "stowing the cabin, basically putting up the seats and getting our communications and our suits ready ...... for...

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