Definition of "stiddy" [stid•dy]

• Eye dialect spelling of steady. (adjective)
• An anvil (noun)
• A blacksmith's shop; a stithy. (noun)

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• "I didn't know but it was the boy that had set him on to go to meeting when I see him walk in, and I could 'a wrung his neck; but I guess I misjudged him; he was called a stiddy boy."
• "He thinks of stationary dwellings as Long Tom Coffin did of land in general; a house may be well enough for incidental purposes, but for a "stiddy" residence give him a "kerridge.""
• "Ike was working "stiddy" although she had not yet seen the color of his money and she was still dependent upon the washing with which a number of families supplied her, and the substantial help given by her old mother's labor at the treasury."