kerve
See also: kérve
English
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editkerve (third-person singular simple present kerves, present participle kerving, simple past and past participle kerved)
- Obsolete form of carve.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- In that figure […] Plinius saw him kerved.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- That else was like to sterve Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve.
References
edit- “kerve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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- Alternative form of kerven