steeve

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A spar or derrick with a block at one end, used for stowing cargo.
2. v. To stow or pack (cargo) in the hold of a ship.
3. n. The angle formed by the bowsprit and the horizon or the keel.
4. v. To incline (a bowsprit) upward at an angle with the horizon or the keel.
5. v. To have an upward inclination. Used of a bowsprit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Stiff; firm; unbending or unyielding.
2. To stiffen: as, to be steeved with cold.
3. Nautical, to project from the bows at an angle instead of horizontally: said of a bowsprit.
4. Nautical, to give a certain angle of elevation to: as, to steeve a bowsprit.
5. n. Nautical, the angle of elevation which the bowsprit makes with the horizon.
6. To stuff; cram; pack firmly and tightly.
7. Nautical, to stow, as cargo in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve or a jack-screw.
8. n. A long derrick or spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cargo.

Wiktionary

1. v. 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.
2. n. nautical The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; the steeving.
3. n. A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Shipbuilding) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
2. v. (Shipbuilding) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
3. v. To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).
4. n. The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.
5. n. A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.