steeve

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I knows the steeve o 'that bowsprit too well to be mistook as to what that brig is.

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  1. noun A spar or derrick with a block at one end, used for stowing cargo.
  2. transitive verb To stow or pack (cargo) in the hold of a ship.
  3. noun The angle formed by the bowsprit and the horizon or the keel.
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  1. From Middle English steven, to stow, probably from Old Spanish estibar, to steeve, or from Old Catalan stivar, both from Latin stīpāre.
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  1. Scots, also stieve, stive, a variant of stiff, prob. due to Danish stiv, stiff: see stiff.
  2. Also stieve; a variant of stive, v. Cf. steeve, a.
  3. apparently orig. ‘be stiff’ (a steeving bowsprit “being fixed stiff or firmly and immovably in the vessel, a horizontal one being movable”): see steeve. Cf. Danish stiver, a prop, stay, stivebjælke, a beam to prop with.
  4. from steeve, v.
  5. Also steve; a variant of stive, from Old French estiver, stuff, cram (Old French estive, the loading of a ship): see stive.
 

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