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stope (iou)



stope noun & verb. M18.
[App. rel. to STEP noun1.]
Mining.
A. noun.
A step or notch in the side of a pit, or in an upright beam, to receive the end of a stemple or crosspiece. M18-M19.
A steplike working in the side of a pit. M18.
b. verb trans. & intrans.
Cut or excavate (mineral ground) in stopes or layer after layer; extract (ore) by this process. Also foll. by out. L18.
Geology. Of magma: make (its way) by detaching and absorbing blocks of the surrounding rock. Freq. as stoping verbal noun. E20.
stoper noun a person who stopes ore etc. L19.

Thonet, Michael (sh)




born July 2, 1796, Boppard, Trier
died March 3, 1871, Vienna, Austria

German Austrian pioneer in the industrialization of furniture manufacture.

He developed a system of steam-bent veneers งใ 1830 and created light, curvilinear chairs. By 1856 he had perfected the bending of solid beechwood with heat and began mass production of bentwood furniture. He set up factories in Hungary and Moravia and opened salons from Moscow to Chicago. By 1870 he was producing furniture in hitherto unheard-of quantities. His furniture is still being manufactured today.