stive /staɪv/noun 1verb 2forms 3 noun1 •The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood. — 1867 verb2 •Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.And here I mist stay, / In this stived up kitchen to work all day. — 1836 •(dialect, UK) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated. formsstived · stiving · stives
