Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STOW, v.t. [Sax. stow, a place, a fixed place or mansion; G. stauen, D. stuwen, Dan. stuver, to stow, to place; Sp. and Port. estivar, id., coinciding with L. stipo, to crowd, to stuff; Sp. estiva, a rammer; L. stiva, the handle of a plow. The sense is to set or throw down, from the more general sense of throwing, driving.]

1. To place; to put in a suitable place or position; as, to stow bags, bales or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay mow; to stow sheaves. The word has reference to the placing of many things, or of one thing among many, or of a mass of things.
2. To lay up; to reposit. [Stow in names, signifies place, as in Barstow.]