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stove1 verb (past tense of stave) To rush, hurry, storm about. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1925 Carter Mt White Tales 350 The old king stove out and ketched a rabbit right down in the thicket and he gave it to Jack. 1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) All the dogs was right with us. They just stove right out at it [=a raccoon] ... The dogs, they just stove off ... into a little laurel patch and there they jumped another big one. 1967 Hall Coll (Mt Sterling NC) He come stavin’ off the hill. The revenue law was in up there. 2005 Williams Gratitude 476 A-stavin’ means that you come a-barrellin', but would be a-stompin' around like you was mad or something was bad wrong, as: “a-stavin’ like a mad bull.
stove2 verb (past tense of stave) To jab, jam, thrust, plunge.
1904-20 Kephart Notebooks 2:475 I stove a nail into [my foot]. Ibid. 4:859 If you make a move, I’ll stave your ribs in. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 296 Many common English words are used in peculiar senses by the mountain folk, as stove for jabbed. 1939 Hall Coll (Mt Sterling NC) Mister Sullivan picked up a piece of steel and stove down in on the dynamite and caused the explosion. 1957 Combs Lg Sthn High Word-List 96 = to stick or plunge (of a knife). Ex.: “He stove a knife in that rascal.”