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Definition of Steeving
1. n. The act or practice of one who steeves.
Definition of Steeving
1. Verb. (present participle of steeve) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Steeving
1. the angular elevation of a bowsprit from a ship's keel [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steeving
Literary usage of Steeving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"We continued at work in this manner until the lower hold was filled to within
four feet of the beams, when all hands were called aboard to commence steeving ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"We continued at work in this manner until the lower hold was filled to within
four feet of the beams, when all hands were called aboard to commence steeving ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Charles Welsh (1907)
"Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the
process of steeving commenced, by which an hundred hides are got into a place ..."
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