Talk:tirve

Latest comment: 3 months ago by -sche

The old NED has a verb tirve, terve "to strip (of clothes, skin, a roof, etc)":

  • 1500-20, Dunbar, Poems, lxxii, 23:
    Of his claithis thai tirvit him bair.
  • 1533, Bellenden, Livy, v xi (S.T.S.) II, 187:
    He gart tirve [v.r. tyrff] þis master nakit []
  • 1590-1, Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV, 587:
    The said Naper [...] and others [...] come and tirvit the said complenaris houssis, and tuke of the rigging and thak thairof.

See also tervy, Citations:terve, Citations:tervee. - -sche (discuss) 20:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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