sparve

English

Etymology

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Noun

sparve (plural sparves)

(UK, dialect) The hedge sparrow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sparve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

pavers, vapers

Italian

Verb

sparve

third-person singular past historic of sparire