I've started reading Moby Dick and loving it. Why have I not read this before?
stove: stōv/
past and past participle of stave.
stave: stāv/
verb: break something by forcing it inward or piercing it roughly.
"the door was staved in"
" In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot." - Herman Melville
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