† Stower v.

[f. STOWER sb.¹] trans. To fence with stakes; ? intr. to fix stakes. Hence Stowering vbl. sb. (in quots. attrib.).

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c. 1555. R. Troughton, in Archæologia, XXIII. 23. A Comon wateryng place ther called Hedgedyke, late stowered for Catall to drynke at. Ibid. I … asked of hyme howe he liked the newe stowered wateryng place.

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1557–8. in R. W. Goulding, Louth Old Corpor. Rec. (1891), 109. It. for dī hundreth of tray nailles & dī c of stowring nailles, ij^d.

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1611–2. Knaresb. Wills (Surtees), II. 34. One stowering womble.

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