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Steen   /stin/   Listen
noun
Steen  n.  (Written also stean)  
1.
A vessel of clay or stone. "An huge great earth-pot steane."
2.
A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.


verb
Steen  v. t.  (Written also stean, and stein)  To line, as a well, with brick, stone, or other hard material.





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"Steen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Radical Cabinet STEEN did not venture to carry the Consular question to an extreme. They were contented to play with fire. Before the King found an opportunity to give his definite answer to the consular question, the Cabinet retired. The Ministerial strike ...
— The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis - A History with Documents • Karl Nordlund
... weern noch kleen, Jehann, Do weer de Welt so grot! We seten op den Steen, Jehann, Weest noch? by Nawers Sot. An Heben sell de stille Maan, Wi segen, wa he leep, Un snacken, wa de Himmel hoch, Un ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... of a place to get to, yes—about a hundred and 'steen rooms and bath, I should say, with a back yard that must have slopped over into Connecticut some. That's what you get by havin' a grandpop who put his thumb-print on every dollar that came ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... right here under our noses, so to speak. Why, we have a ready-made honeymoon staring us in the face. We'll just skate round Switzerland after your baggage and then drop down the map into Italy. I figured it all out last night, together with 'steen methods of making the preliminary declaration. I'll tell you the whole scheme while we—Oh, well, if you're in a real hurry to cross the glacier, I must defer ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
... greater success. Besides Van der Meulen and Rugendas, the painters of battle-pieces, Wouvermann chiefly excelled in the delineation of horses and groups of horsemen, and Teniers, Ostade, and Jan Steen became famous for the surpassing truth of their peasants and domestic scenes. To this low but happily-treated school also belonged the cattle-pieces of Berchem and Paul de Potter, whose "Bull and Cows" were, in a certain respect, as ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks


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