Definition of "stope" []

• An excavation in the form of steps made by the mining of ore from steeply inclined or vertical veins. (noun)
• To remove (ore) from or mine by means of a stope. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Leahy should stope lecturing on racial politics to amke his poltical point."
• "For a # of years I used Rems Extended Range l68 grs, but they stope making them and went to the Sciroccos."
• "People need to grow up and stope seeing what they can sue people over."