Definition of "stower" [stower]

• One who stows; specifically, a workman who assists in stowing away the cargo in the hold of a vessel. (noun)
• See stour, stoured. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I love her whose absence I plain before Allah for parting-stower"
• "I was transferred from the quarter-deck part of the ship to a flying-jib stower."
• "It means bracing-stakes: _strut_, in carpentry, is to _brace_; and _stower_ is a small kind of stake, as distinguished from the "ten stakes" mentioned in the legend quoted by MR. COOPER."