The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes, from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
An underground excavation formed by working in a series of steps when mining a vertical orebody
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[ 'stOp ] (noun.) 1747. Apparently related to step, but with uncertain phonological development. Perhaps from Low Saxon stope (“step”), from Middle Low German stōpe (“step”). More at stoop.