[f. stove, pa. pple. of STAVE v.] trans. = STAVE v. 2.
1820. Oxley, Jrnls. Exped. N. S. Wales, 17. The large boat had got stoved against a tree under water.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., xx. I ’ll stove in your old blockhouse like a rum puncheon. Ibid. Drop shooting poor seamen, and stoving of their heads in while asleep.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 7 Dec., 5/1. And her bulwarks were stoved and washed away.
