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Definition of 'stive'English
Noun
(obsolete) A stew.
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
- (De Colange)
* 1867 , The British Farmer's Magazine , Volum LII, New Series, page 231 ,
- The removal of the heated air, steam, stive , and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.
Derived terms
* stive-box, stive-room
Verb
( stiv)
To be stifled or suffocated.
To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
* Sir H. Wotton
- His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
* 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64 ,
- Let your cucumbers be ?mall, fre?h gathered, and free from ?pots; then make a pickle of ?alt and water, ?trong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ?kim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ?tive them down for twenty four hours;.
* 1836 , T. S. Davis (editor), Kitchen Poetry'', ''Every Body's Album , Volume 1, page 172 ,
- And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
* 1851 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871, page 284 ,
- "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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Similar to 'stive'stove, steppe, stipe, steeve, stave, stape, stope, stupe, stoove, sative, stoupe, steve, stufae
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