stower

Definitions

noun One who stows; specifically, a workman who assists in stowing away the cargo in the hold of a vessel.
noun See stour, stoured.

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I love her whose absence I plain before Allah for parting-stower

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006
I was transferred from the quarter-deck part of the ship to a flying-jib stower.

From Lower Deck to Pulpit Henry Cowling 1909
I love her whose absence I plain before Allah for parting-stower

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
It means bracing-stakes: _strut_, in carpentry, is to _brace_; and _stower_ is a small kind of stake, as distinguished from the "ten stakes" mentioned in the legend quoted by MR. COOPER.

Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852
In the outskirts of the town, -- and flanked, rather than surrounded, by two or three rows of trees, of scarcely three years growth -- stands the "stiff and stower" remains of the _Castle of Houdan_.

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811