stiving

Verb (1)

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

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive, transitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
   • Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64

Verb (2)

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

1. (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.
   • His chamber being commonly ſtived vvith Friends or Suiters of one kind or other, vvhen he gave his legs, armes, and breſt to his ordinary ſervants to button and dreſſe him vvith little heed, […] then the Gentleman of his Robes throvving a cloak over his ſhoulders, he vvould make a ſtep into his...c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in...

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