▪ I. ˈstoven, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 4 stovyn, 7 stovene.
[OE. stofn masc. and fem. = ON. stofn masc.]
a. A stem or trunk of a tree. b. A sapling, shoot from the stump of a tree. Also fig.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 137/29 Stipes, stofn. c 1000 in Napier Gloss. i. 117 Surculos, stofnas. Ibid. 1665 Progenie propaganda, mid ᵹestrenendlicere stofne. 1295 Acc. Exch. K.R. 5/8 m. 5 Et xix. d. in Stouenes emptis..ad Galeam. a 1300 Cursor M. 8243 Quen all was closed a-boute þat tre, A siluer cercle son naild he, Þat was þe stouen for to strength. 1334–5 in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) s.v. Zuche, Concedimus dilecto valecto nostro Ric. de Stelley omnes Zucheos aridos, qui Anglice vocantur Stovenes infra Hayam nostram de Beskewood. [1524 Yorks. Deeds (Yorks. Archæol. Soc.) II. 39 To sufficiently fence all trees, stoven, and under⁓growth.] a 1640 Jackson Creed xi. iv. (1657) 3347 The diffusion of life..from the roots into the stemmes, stovens or branches. 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorks. II. 356 Stoven, a shoot of a tree. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 176 How sweet to be thus nestling deep in boughs, Upon an ashen stoven pillowing me. 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Stoven, a stump, either growing or put into the ground as a post. 1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Weaver v, It was strangely ordered that my happiness and my shame should grow on one stoven (stock, or stem). |
▪ II. stoven, ppl. a.
(ˈstəʊv(ə)n)
[irreg. pa. pple. of stave v.]
= stove ppl. a.
| 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick II. xiv. 122 The terrific wreck of the stoven planks. 1892–3 Froude Lect. Counc. Trent vi. (1896) 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. |