Steeve vs Skeeve - What's the difference?
steeve | skeeve |
(archaic) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.
(nautical) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; the steeving.
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
(informal) To be disgusted.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 28, author=Penelope Green, title=Jersey Girls, Nesting, work=New York Times
, passage=Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says. }}
As verbs the difference between steeve and skeeve
is that steeve is (archaic) to project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc while skeeve is (informal) to be disgusted.As a noun steeve
is (nautical) the angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; the steeving.steeve
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