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 281 StopeS. Mining term for a stull, winze, or rise. In the Clay-work district it means the face of the clay- pit. "A good stopes," i.e., a good deep body of clay. Stope-a-back. A mining operation. E.N. See Stope. Stop net, or stop seine. The great, or principal seine net used to enclose a shoal of pilchards. It is often 1600 feet long, and about 60 feet broad. One edge is supplied with corks to float it, the other with leaden weights to sink it. When *^ shot," for a shoal of pilchards, it surrounds them circularly like a wall, and the ** tuck-net " is used to remove the fish from it. See Tuck-net. Stound. A sudden and great pain. A Strake, or Streke. A small tye or gounce for washing the fine ore stuff, as in streaming tin. Pryce. The term strokes is used of the mica pits, (q.v.) or long shallow places in a clay-work. The clay water runs slowly along them as it dsposits mica (q.v.) In Celtic Cornish, strek, a stream. Strake, or Strakey. To steal marbles. M.A.C. Straking along. Walking slowly, sauntering. In Celtic Cornish strechye means, to stop, to stay, to tarry. Stram. A falsehood. Stram. To slam, or shut anything violently. Stram-bang, or Slam-bang. All of a sudden, in a noisy manner.