dial. (Yorks.) [variant of STEVEN v.] trans. To obtain (goods) on credit; to order in advance, bespeak. Also, to pay a deposit upon goods bought.
1674. in Depos. York Castle (Surtees), 210. Thy father went to John Walker’s to steime a pare of shooes, and he would not let him have them without he had money in his hand…. Likewise he went to George Coppley’s to steime a wastcoate cloth.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, To Steem: to bespeak a thing.
1862. C. C. Robinson, Dial. Leeds, Steim, to bespeak. ‘Steimed a plaace fur t’ meeting.’
