See stow in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:",
"text": "“Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time",
"word": "elraktároz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time",
"word": "immagazzinare"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubirátʹ",
"sense": "to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time",
"word": "убира́ть"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time",
"word": "guardar"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over long time",
"word": "almacenar"
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"word": "stow"
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"3": "",
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"1": "de",
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"3": "",
"4": "to halt, hem in, stow, pack"
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"ref": "c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66, 69–74:",
"text": "His seconde hawke wexyd gery […]\non the rode loft\nShe perkyd her to rest.\nThe fauconer then was prest,\nCame runnynge with a dow,\nAnd cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’\nBut she wold not bow.",
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"(obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand."
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