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Definition of Steeved
1. steeve [v] - See also: steeve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steeved
Literary usage of Steeved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
""I'm steeved to death with the could." Stem of a fork, the handle. Stem, a job;
work not paid by time. Stemming, a turn ; in rotation. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"I'm steeved to death with the could." Stem of a fork, the handle. Stem, a job ;
work not paid by time. ..."
3. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
""I'm steeved to death with the could." Stem of a fork, the handle. Stem, a job;
work not paid by time. Stemming, a turn; in rotation. ..."
4. Report and Transactions (1879)
""steeved (= Starved = Frozen). A man, born and resident at Ashburton, about 54
years of age, complained of attending a meeting in a room without a fire, ..."
5. The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith by Sarah Hewett (1892)
"Tha snaw is vive ur six veet deep out 'pon tha moors. I'm niest upon steeved wi'
tha cold. Fake up tha vire.' Steffel = to stifle. ..."
6. A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, in Three Parts by Mary Reynolds Palmer, James Frederick Palmer (1837)
"... the central branches, cut half through and laid lengthways, are so called.
steeved, past part. stiffened, as eg ' steeved with cold': from ..."
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