to stive up

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To stuff up close.--Johnson.


Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't know what we can do.--Margaret, p. 329.

You would admire, if you saw them stive it into their ships.--Sandy's Travels.

"Oh, marcy on us," said a fat lady who was looking for a house, "this'll never do for my family at all. There's no convenience about it, only one little stived up closet. .... And the bed-rooms,--she would as soon sleep in a pig-pen and done with it, as to get into such little mean stived up places as them.--Downing, May-day in New York.

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