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Stive means The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding..
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/staɪv/ · noun
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding..
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.
1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64, Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .
His chamber being commonly ſtived vvith Friends or Suiters of one kind or other, vvhen he gave his legs, armes, and breſt to his ordinary ſervants to button and dreſſe him vvith little heed, […] then the Gentleman of his Robes throvving a cloak over his ſhoulders, he vvould make a ſtep into his Cloſet, and after a ſhort prayer, he vvas gone: […]
And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
"Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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Stive means The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding..
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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.
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