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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See keeve.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See keeve, n.

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  • noun Alternative form of keeve.

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Examples

  • For preliminary dewatering, the concentrates need to be processed in a raffination barrel following the Schanz-method or in a tossing kieve.

    17.1 Drying oven 1993

  • By them he was conducted into the dun, into a chamber which they had prepared for him, and they drew water and filled his kieve, and there Laeg ministered to him.

    The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

  • Vanners are, as a rule, skilful men, and show remarkable dexterity in separating the black tin, with the help of their apparatus, which consists simply of a shovel and a kieve of water.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • The vanner stands in front of a tub of water (kieve) and allows 30 or 40 c.c. of water to flow on to the ore.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • For more information about The Leadership School, call 207-563-6212, e-mail leadershipschool@kieve. org, or visit the website at kieve. org.

    Knox 2008

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