C1. General attributive as stepmother dole, †stepmother shive (with reference to the stinginess ascribed to stepmothers).
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1483 Cath. Angl. 361/2 A Stepmoder schyfe, colirida.
1847 C. BrontëJane Eyre III. v. 127 Nature..forgetting her usual stinted step-mother dole of gifts, had endowed this, her darling, with a granddame's bounty.