Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To shelter, as beneath eaves.
Wiktionary
- n. Eaves: the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building
Examples
“The chickens were convinced that the eave was their roosting niche.”
“Slopping down that paint as quickly as I could, I was working on a stretch of the roof called an eave, which I could barely reach, even on my tiptoes, when I came to a big, baggy-looking sack hanging stuck to a corner.”
“The light within the eave was a dusky twilight at the entrance, which failed altogether in the inner recesses.”
“Did you know that at the elevation in pre-Reformation England, some of the faithful were known to call out, "'eave 'im 'igher!”
“She gestures towards him from a shadowed eave and he comes closer.”
“Paige found a crawl space under an eave in the house and when she could, she would climb inside and hide.”
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“There is a four or five year old house in Lakewood/Seward Park that has a massive faux stone chimney on the outside going up two floors only to end under the eave.”
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“Covert, they read, in quaint carved letters under the eave of the porch.”
“No one can point to the real final straw - gen mod crops, climate change, the eave shortage brought about by depressed housing starts - it could have been anything.”
“She hustled toward the library and waited under an eave as the storm poured down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eave’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
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Castles and Keeps
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abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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alluvial, motley, amygdala, skein, echo, lucent, evening, clasp, weft, ruinous, waver, eave and 122 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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household
balustrade, porch swing, terrace, windowseat, foyer, breakfast nook, cellar, bay window, venetian blinds, canopy, hammock, hope chest and 69 more...
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for our consideration:
blancket, doppelgänger, lisps, mamihlapinatapai, utterly, hipster, detritus, bike, yawn, procrastinate, ☂, woof and 38 more...
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