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Stave vs Stive - What's the difference?

stave | stive |

In lang=en terms the difference between stave and stive

is that stave is to walk or move rapidly while stive is to be stifled or suffocated.

As nouns the difference between stave and stive

is that stave is one of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc while stive is (obsolete) a stew.

As verbs the difference between stave and stive

is that stave is to break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst often with in while stive is to be stifled or suffocated.

stave

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
  • One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
  • (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.
  • (label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
  • A staff or walking stick.
  • Verb

  • To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .
  • to stave in a cask
  • * 1851 ,
  • Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=…for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her. }}
  • To push, as with a staff. With off .
  • * South
  • The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.
  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .
  • to stave off the execution of a project
  • * Tennyson
  • And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.
  • To burst in pieces by striking against something.
  • To walk or move rapidly.
  • To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
  • * Sandys
  • All the wine in the city has been staved .
  • To furnish with staves or rundles.
  • (Knolles)
  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
  • to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

    Derived terms

    * stave in * stave off

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    stive

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) A stew.
  • The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
  • (De Colange)
  • * 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

    (stiv)
  • To be stifled or suffocated.
  • To compress, to cram; to make close and hot; to render stifling.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • His chamber was commonly stived with friends or suitors of one kind or other.
  • * 1796 , Amelia Simmons, , 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 , , Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom , 1871, page 284,
  • "Things are a good deal stived up," answered the Deacon.
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