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Crossword-Solution: STEEVING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Steeving p. pr. & vb. n. of Steeve
Steeving n. The act or practice of one who steeves.
Steeving n. See Steeve, n. (a).

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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STEEVING (5)

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.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000
Having filled the ship up, in this way, to within four feet of her beams, the process of steeving began, by which a hundred hides are got into a place where scarce one could 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.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2003
How they called up to my mind the months of curing at San Diego, the year and more of beach and surf work, and the steeving of the ship for home! I was in a dream of San Diego, San Pedro,-- with its hill so steep for taking up goods, and its stones so hard to our bare feet,-- and the cliffs of San Juan! All this, too, is no more! The entire hide-business is of the past, and to the present inhabitants of California a dim tradition.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2003
Falconer also states that a sloop differs from a cutter by having a fixed steeving bowsprit and a jib-stay.
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 E. Keble Chatterton 2006
STEEVING, the elevation of a ship’s bowsprit above the stem, or the angle which it makes with the horizon.
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine William Falconer 2018
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).