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Stiddy

Stiddy \Stid"dy\, n. [See Stithy.] An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.

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stiddy

a. (eye dialect of steady English) n. 1 An anvil 2 A blacksmith's shop; a stithy.

Usage examples of "stiddy".

For three stiddy days I put before that man the best vittles that these hands could make, or this brain could plan.

He never loved to hunt stiddy, hard work, and foller on the trail of it till he evertook success and captured it.

Thomas Jefferson carried her through a law-suit, and carried her stiddy and safe.

I know it would wear me out to take such stiddy care on one, day and night.

A sight impressive enough to furnish one with stiddy emotions for weeks and weeks.

He has clearly shown two things: that the world was made for man, and that the universe was made for the world -- to stiddy it, you know.

I have heard my son tell of him too, and how altered he is, and how angry the Welsh sailors are with him, but I believe he is stiddy and upright.

When I come up out of my revery, I see Ardelia lookin' at her stiddy and kind a sot.

He wuz a stiddy, quiet man, and she had got to lookin' on him as her banker and business man.

For three stiddy days I put before that man the best vittles that these hands could make, or this brain could plan.

Wall, it haint to be expected that I could walk along carryin' such hefty emotions as I wuz a carryin', and havin' my neck held high and stiddy both by principle and alpacky, and see to every step I wuz a takin'.