What is the meaning of Stope?

(p.p.) Alternative of Stopen.
(v.t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
(v.t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(v.i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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