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Stoved

Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoved; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoving.]

  1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
    --Bacon.

  2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

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stoved

vb. (en-past of: stove)

Usage examples of "stoved".

In his lap he held the hollow tip of a narwhal's tusk, a little silver knife that had once been used to kill a starving child, and a chunk of sea salt-hardened driftwood from a wrecked ship that had been beset then stoved in by the cold blue ice of Endsea.

He had stoved his left thumb but had kept on working while it swelled to half again its normal size.

Coombs knew that Kelly didn't have an aching back or aching arms or a stoved thumb.