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Definition of Stow away
1. Verb. Hide aboard a ship or a plane to get free transportation. "The illegal immigrants stowed away on board the freighter"
Definition of Stow away
1. Verb. (transitive) To stow or secure in a safe place. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To obtain passage (on a ship or similar vehicle) by secreting oneself inside before departure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stow Away
Literary usage of Stow away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Autobiography by Samuel Sidney McClure (1914)
"... TO IRELAND WHEN I Was NINETEEN— Restless for America—I Determine to Ship as
a Stow-away—My Letter to the First Officer—Working My Passage as Mess-Boy—My ..."
2. Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal edited by Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads (1851)
"He was as good as his word, and sent a wretched stow-away back in a steam-tug to
... A stow-away was lately discovered, almost dead, in a barrel of salt. ..."
3. An Uncensored Diary from the Central Empires by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt (1917)
"If, wishing to be prepared against a rainy day, they hastily stow away a few
articles of value and convenience in a trunk, preparatory to making a hurried ..."
4. Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Riebeeck (1898)
"1686. can ]je obtained, and take on board for the Cape as many as it ;36th~Nov.
can stow away. The skipper has been often on the island and can speak with ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"The gullet and stomach vary with the food habits of the fish. Predatory fishes
swallow and stow away large objects. An extreme instance is the deep-sea fish ..."
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