kerve

See also: kérve

English

Verb

kerve (third-person singular simple present kerves, present participle kerving, simple past and past participle kerved)

1. Obsolete form of carve.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folio 69, recto:

     And in that figure Plinius wrꝛiteth that be ſawe hym kerued before the temple of Venus.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 6:

     That else was like to sterve Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve.

References

• “kerve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dutch

Verb

kerve

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of kerven

Anagrams

• kever

Middle English

Verb

kerve

1. alternative form of kerven