Stive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /staɪv/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stive is a noun meaning The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
Meaning
The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
More Meanings
- (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
- (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.
- Obsolete form of stew.
Example Sentences
"Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day.
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; […] .
Word Forms
- stives
- stiving
- stived
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stour, milldust, slickens, bolting, clears, smeddum.
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