overstow

overstow

English

Etymology

over- +‎ stow

Verb

overstow (third-person singular simple present overstows, present participle overstowing, simple past and past participle overstowed)

1. (usually of cargo) To stow on top of one another.
   • 2006, David House, Cargo Work

     A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes.

Noun

overstow (plural overstows)

1. The cargo stowed on top of another cargo.
   • 2015, João Paulo Almeida, ‎Jose Fernando Oliveira, ‎Alberto Adrego Pinto, Operational Research: IO 2013 - XVI Congress of APDIO, Bragança, Portugal, June 3-5, 2013

     A two stage approach was developed: in the first stage two objective functions were considered, one to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other to minimize the number of overstows.

2. Such situation or condition.
   • 1988, Prototype Expert System to Provide Decision Support for Stowage Planning. Technical Report

     The type of overstow described above is the most common type of overstow fault.