different between stive vs stiver

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

stive

1. (obsolete) A stew.
2. 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.

Derived terms

• stive-box, stive-room

Verb

stive (third-person singular simple present stives, present participle stiving, simple past and past participle stived)

1. (Britain, dialect, intransitive) To be stifled or suffocated.
2. (transitive, sometimes with "up") To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
   • 1641, Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham

     His chamber being commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.

   • 1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 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, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, 1871, page 284,

     "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.

Anagrams

• Vites

Danish

Adjective

stive

1. plural and definite singular attributive of stiv

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Noun

stive f

1. plural of stiva

Anagrams

• vesti, vestì, viste

Middle English

Adjective

stive

1. Alternative form of stif

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

stive

1. definite singular of stiv
2. plural of stiv

English

Etymology

From Dutch stuiver, cognate with Middle Low German stüver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?v?/

Noun

stiver (plural stivers)

1. (historical, money) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
2. Anything of small value.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 4 (Penguin 2003, p. 223):

     ’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     [A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would not have to pay one stiver.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rivets, rivest, rivets, strive, tivers, verist

Danish

Noun

stiver c (singular definite stiveren, plural indefinite stivere)

1. brace, shore, prop
2. stanchion, pillar
3. rib, spoke
4. strut

Inflection