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Definition of Stive
1. v. t. To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling.
2. v. i. To be stifled or suffocated.
3. n. The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
Definition of Stive
1. to stifle [v STIVED, STIVING, STIVES] - See also: stifle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stive
Literary usage of Stive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the mill-stones, is
a proposition whi:h does not appear to be more than sufficiently «-ell ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1868)
"Two air-pumps for exhausting the millstone case, both working at the top of the
meal-spout of the elevator, tho meal and stive flowing down together into ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"This close proximity of the stones, coupled with rapid driving and extra fine
grinding, produced an excess ot accumulated heat, with churning action, stive, ..."
4. Rudimentary Treatise on Masting, Mast-making, and Rigging of Ships: Also by Robert Kipping (1854)
"stive of the Bowsprit. THE masting of ships, or the placing of the masts, belongs
to the business of the builder or constructor of the ship; ..."
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