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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accommodation, allocation, assignment, burden, capacity, cold storage, collocation, conservation, content, cordage, custody, dead storage, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, dry storage, emplacement, guardianship, lading, limit, loading, localization, locating, location, measure, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, poundage, preservation, putting, quantity, reposition, room, safekeeping, shelf-room, situation, space, spotting, stationing, storage, storage space, tonnage, volume, warehousing
Dictionary Results for stowage:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
stowage
    n 1: the charge for stowing goods
    2: a room in which things are stored [syn: storeroom, storage
       room, stowage]
    3: the act of packing or storing away [syn: stowage,
       stowing]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stowage \Stow"age\, n.
   1. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of
      provisions in a vessel.
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   2. Room in which things may be stowed. --Cook.
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            In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.
                                                  --Addison.
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   3. The state of being stowed, or put away. "To have them in
      safe stowage." --Shak.
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   4. Things stowed or packed. --Beau. & Fl.
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   5. Money paid for stowing goods.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
STOWAGE, mar. law. The proper arrangement in a ship, of the different 
articles of which a cargo consists, so that they may not injure each other 
by friction, or be damaged by the leakage of the ship. 
     2. The master of the ship is bound to attend to the stowage, unless, by 
custom or agreement, this business is to be performed by persons employed by 
the merchant. Abbott on Ship. 228; Pardes. Dr. Com. n. 721.
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