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To stow especially in a ship's hold.

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Usage examples (6)
  • That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague.
  • "A brown patch in the big main-topsail, and the bowsprit steeved more'n ordinary," said Joe.
  • It consisted of a collar of rope set lower at one side than at the other (but that had been before the mast had steeved so many degrees away from the zenith), and...
  • The fore part of the frigate was several feet above water, and the bowsprit steeved in the air; of the after part there were but three or four broken timbers to be seen...
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