Sc. and dial. Also stove; for other forms see Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. Stove. [f. STOW v.2]
1. The stump of a tree or shrub.
1774. Hutchinson, Hist. Cumb. (1794), I. 102. The bottoms, or stoves, of some of the trees,… which appeared to be then lately cut down.
2. A thick slice (of cheese).
1725. Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., II. xx. A kebbuck syn … pat on the sheaf, In stous that day.
