To put in a suitable or convenient place or position; put in a place aside or out of the way; lay up; put up; pack; especially, to pack in a convenient form: as, to stow bags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow sheaves.To accumulate or compactly arrange anything in; fill by packing closely: as, to stow a box or the hold of a ship.To contain; hold.To furl or roll up, as a sail.In mining, to fill up (vacant spaces) with stowing.To bestow; give; grant.To intrust; commit; give in charge.To furnish as the stowdown: as, the whale stowed down 75 barrels of oil.To resist; hinder; stop.To put out of sight or hearing; be silent about.To make resistance; resist.To cut off; crop; lop.n. In tinplate manuf., the structure which contains the furnace and the series of five pots.To dry In an oven.To conceal one's self on a ship (with a view to a free passage): with away. See stowaway.