Stove, Strove, Shrove, Shrove Tuesday

Stove is an apparatus that works on fuel such as kerosene or gas, electricity for cooking, heating.

Stove-enamel is the heatproof enamel and stove-enamelled is an adjective; and stove-pipe conduct smoke and gases from a stove to a chimney.

Another distinct meaning of stove is: stove is the past tense and past participle of stave (stave-stove-stove).

Stave functions as a noun and verb; and has multiple meanings.

As a noun, stave refers to the curved strip of wood at the sides of a barrel, cask, pail and such objects; a vertical piece of wood; wooden post or plank.

Stave is a long wooden stick, a staff (in this sense the plural of staff is also staves). Stave is a stanza or verse; in music, stave is a set of 5 parallel lines indicating the pitch.

Stove is the past tense and past participle of the verb stave; and the other alternative word for stove is staved.

Stave as a verb means to make a hole, to break a hole in, crush or knock out of shape, pierce something into something, force something inwards.

Stave off means avert or delay or defer that is bad or dangerous, delay something that could bring in misfortune (the soldiers on the borders stave off the intruders or enemies of the land).

Strove is the past tense of the verb ‘strive’: strive-strove-striven or strived.

Strive means to try hard to get something, to reach somewhere; make efforts. Strive is often followed by for, to: I strove for excellence.

Germany strives for excellence in automobile engineering. Strive is also followed by ‘with’ and ‘against’, and in this sense it means to contend, struggle. Countries relentlessly strive with lawlessness or unanticipated social upheaval.

The variants of strive are strives, strove or strived, striven or strived (verbs) and striver (noun).

Success will not elude strivers.

Shrive is a verb meaning to hear the confession of (such as the priest), assign penance to, and absolve. Is there anyone to shrive you?

Shrive oneself means to submit oneself to a priest for confession, penance, or absolution. Shrove is the past tense of shrive: shrive-shrove-shriven.

Note that there is also proper noun ‘Shriver’. “Just travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” –Sargent Shriver

Do you observe Shrove Tuesday?

In Christianity, Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day, or Pancake Tuesday) ends the season of Epiphany, and it is the vigil for starting of Lent (the season of penance).

Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday.

By:Kovuuri G Reddy

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