What is Stove Up?
1.
sore, wore out.
After branding calves all day I am pretty well stove up.
2.
- to have pain or soreness on such a level that one is unable to get up or move from the couch/bed.
After that party last night, I was so stove up that I could hardly move.
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3.
Past tense of stave - to jam smash inward
My back is all stove up.
4.
Swollen and badly bruised. Phrase primarily in rural, folk or country use in the USA. Often used to refer to an eye that is so swollen and black (usually due to a fist punch), it appears closed over.
On COPS, they showed a woman who'd been beaten up by her boyfriend; her face was all stove up.
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