steeve

1) To compress, to make tight or solid.

1695 Old widow Banks ... was busy making hen meat, bid a lasse stieve it while she did somewhat else, Northowram. In the following reference it was probably for ‘stained’: 1489 one frontall, one steuened clothe, and ij lynyn clothes, Hornby.

dates 1489 1695

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