stive
To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
intransitive, transitive
Let your cucumbers be ſmall, freſh gathered, and free from ſpots; then make a pickle of ſalt and water, ſtrong enough to bear an egg; boil the pickle and ſkim it well, and then pour it upon your cucumbers, and ſtive them down for twenty four hours; […] .
1796, Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1996 Bicentennial Facsimile Edition, page 64,
Where it comes from
From Middle English stīven, alternative form of stūphen (“to steep (meat in a liquid)”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). Compare Scots stove (“to stew”) (whence Irish stobh), Old French estuver (“to put into hot water”), and Dutch stoven (“to stew, simmer”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry stive (CC BY-SA 4.0).