Definition of "steeving" []

• Present participle of steeve. (verb)

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• "Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the process of steeving commenced, by which an hundred hides are got into a place where one could not be forced by hand, and which presses the hides to the utmost, sometimes starting the beams of the ship, resembling in its effects the jack-screws which are used in stowing cotton."
• "We continued at work in this manner until the lower hold was filled to within four feet of the beams, when all hands were called aboard to commence steeving."
• "The martinganes flatten in their jibs along their high steeving bowsprits and jib-booms."