stive

dust. Pembrokeshire, where DUST implies only saw-dust.

Stive
·vi To be stifled or suffocated. II. Stive ·noun The floating dust in flour mills caused by the ope...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson. Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.