Meaning of stive | Babel Free

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The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

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“1867, The British Farmer's Magazine, Volum LII, New Series, page 231, The removal of the heated air, steam, stive, and flour from the millstones, is a proposition which does not appear to be more than sufficiently well understood.”

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