From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstow away phrasal verbHIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto hide on a vehicle in order to travel secretly or without paying A boy was caught trying to stow away on a plane. → stowaway → stow→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
stow away• The sweaters hung beneath the open hatch, the sink was empty and the oilskins stowed away.• Our driver got the mail bags stowed away, and made his horses strike out in good style.• Customs officials discovered several illegal immigrants stowed away at the front of the ship.• The door closed, and Renwick could safely stow away his cigarette case.• The antique musical instruments had been stowed away in the glass-fronted cabinets.• At the age of thirteen Billing stowed away on a ship bound for Delagoa Bay.• Once the luggage was stowed away on board Penry lifted her on the deck of the Angharad and cast off.• With no money, his only hope of getting to New York was to stow away on the next ship.• He would have time to stow away the kohlrabi, the offal and the edenwort.• It seems, Freddie as he's been named, stowed away with a consignment of bananas from the Windward Islands. 