Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large vat or tub used for various purposes, as for dressing ores in mining, for holding the lye in bleaching (in which sense it is also called a keir), as a brewers' mashing-tub, etc.
- To put in a keeve for fermentation, etc.
- To overturn or lift up, as a cart, so as to unload it all at once.
Wiktionary
- n. brewing A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
- n. bleaching A bleaching vat; a kier.
- n. mining A large vat used in dressing ores.
- v. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
- v. Provincial English To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
- n. (Bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.
- n. (Mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.
- v. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
- v. Prov. Eng. To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
Etymologies
- This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. Derived from Old English "cȳf" meaning a vat. (Macdonald, A. M., ed. (1972) Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary; new ed. Edinburgh: Chambers; p. 719) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Boil your copper, temper your liquor in the same to 185, and when ready, run it on your keeve a little at a time, putting in the malt and the water gradually together, mashing at the same time; when the whole of your malt is thus got in, continue the operation of mashing half an hour, cap with dry malt, and let your mash stand one hour and a half.”
“Boiled the first copper; drew the fire; then ran ten inches of boiling hot water into the keeve; added two inches of cold water, mixed both well together, which made up at 168; then put in the malt gradually, mashing all the time, for about half an hour; the mash being thin, did not require a longer operation.”
“To Keeve. _v.a. _ To put the wort in a keeve for some time to ferment.”
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
“After that I re-made them; but could only get a keeve out of the vat, and a stan out of the keeve, and a mug out of the stan, and a cilorn out of the mug, and a milan out of the cilom, and a medar out of the milan; and I leave it to Almighty”
“The mouth of this Still was closed by an air-tight cover, also of tin, called the Head, from which a tube of the same metal projected into a large keeve, or condenser, that was kept always filled with cool water by an incessant stream from the cascade we have described, which always ran into and overflowed it.”
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
“a pound of white salt, then poured on boiling water in sufficient quantity to saturate them well, after which they were close covered; the keeve having stood two hours, the tap was set, and ran down twelve inches.”
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