stowaway

Etymology

From stow away, from stow and away.

noun

  1. A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
    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. 1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter VII, in The After House

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