Steeve
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /stiːv/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Steeve is a noun meaning (nautical) The angle that a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel.
Meaning
(nautical) The angle that a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel.
More Meanings
- A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
- (transitive) To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.
- (archaic) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
Example Sentences
"They are all alike to me." And indeed to a landsman, the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mold. "They ain't, though. That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague. Nick Brady's her skipper, the meanest man on the Banks. […]"
Word Forms
- steeves
- steeving
- steeved
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stow, stee, step, stool, stem, steek.
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