Definition of "steeves" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of steeve. (verb)

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• "The fashion of short steeves seems quite to be coming in again!"
• "A little boating and beach work in the morning; then twenty or thirty men down in a close hold, where we were obliged to sit down and slide about, passing hides, and rowsing about the great steeves, tackles, and dogs, singing out at the falls, and seeing the ship filling up every day."