Citations:terve
English citations of terve
- The NED has a verb tirve, terve "to turn, esp. upside down" with this cite:
- 1567, Golding Ovid's Met., v, 1 v b:
- made with crooked welked hornes that inward still doe terue [rime serue]
- The NED also gives this cite of a two-syllable form (=tervy?) but the DSL takes it to be Scots:
- 1819, W. Tennant, Papistry Storm'd (1827), 206:
- He made him tirvie down and tapple Head-foremost wi' a bang.
- 1819, W. Tennant, Papistry Storm'd (1827), 206: