stowaway

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See also: stow away

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Etymology

From stow away, from stow and away.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/
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Noun

stowaway (plural stowaways)

  1. A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The First Lowering”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 242:
      “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”
    • 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter 19, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
      In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
    • 1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter VII, in The After House:
      One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.

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