stovenn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
(a) A stem or trunk of a tree. (b) A sapling, shoot from the stump of a tree. Also figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole
stovenc1000
bolec1314
bodyc1330
stock1340
shaft1398
stealc1440
truncheonc1449
trunk1490
stud1579
leg1597
butt1601
truncus1706
stam1839
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 137/29 Stipes, stofn.
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses i. 117 Surculos, stofnas.
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses i. 1665 Progenie propaganda, mid gestrenendlicere stofne.
1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/8 m. 5 Et xix. d. in Stouenes emptis..ad Galeam.
1334–5 in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) at Zuche Concedimus dilecto valecto nostro Ric. de Stelley omnes Zucheos aridos, qui Anglice vocantur Stovenes infra Hayam nostram de Beskewood.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8243 Quen all was closed a-boute þat tre, A siluer cercle son naild he, þat was þe stouen for to strength.
?15.. Charter in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) at Stoc Præterea si homines de Stanhal dicti Abbatis inventi fuerint in bosco prædicti W. cum forisfacto ad Stoc & ad Stovel,..malefactor pro delicto, qui taliter inventus est, reddet tres solidos.
1524 Yorks. Deeds (Yorks. Archaeol. Soc.) II. 39 To sufficiently fence all trees, stoven, and under~growth.]
a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3347 The diffusion of life..from the root into the stemmes, stovens or branches.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Stoc and Stovel, in our old writers, a forfeiture where any one is taken carrying stipites and pabulum out of the woods.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 356 Stoven, a shoot of a tree.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 176 How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs, Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 302 Stoven, a stump, either growing or put into the ground as a post.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver v. 51 It was strangely ordered that my happiness and my shame should grow on one stoven (stock, or stem).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stovenadj.
/ˈstəʊv(ə)n/ = stove adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > stove in
bouged1580
bulged1619
stove1850
stoven1851
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken or bashed in
stoved1794
stove1850
stoven1892–3
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lvi. 299 The terrific wreck of the stoven planks.
1892–3 J. A. Froude Lect. Council Trent (1896) vi. 140 The sands were littered with drowned bodies, stoven casks, and shattered boxes.
1900 W. S. Davis Friend of Caesar xiii. 258 It was madness to embark on the stoven craft.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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