Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rush.
- n. A wick made of rush.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect A rush (the plant).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A rush.
Etymologies
- Compare Danish, Swedish, Icelandic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“zone_info": "huffpost. media/blog; featured-posts = 1; media = 1; nickname = charles-warner; entry_id = 296429; ava-seave = 1; bruce-greenwald = 1; jonathan-knee = 1; rupert-murdoch = 1; stephen-king = 1; sumner-redstone = 1; the-atlantic = 1",”
“HPConfig. blog_id = 3; var ads_page_type = 'bpage'; var zone_info = "huffpost. media/blog; featured-posts = 1; media = 1; nickname = charles-warner; entry_id = 296429; ava-seave = 1; bruce-greenwald = 1; jonathan-knee = 1; rupert-murdoch = 1; stephen-king = 1; sumner-redstone = 1; the-atlantic = 1"; if (top!”
“_scut_, a rabbit's tail; _seave_, a rush; _sike_, a small rill, gutter; _sile_, a young herring; _skeel_, a wooden pail; _skep_,”
“` uvular pronunciation of/r/'; burdock, formed on bur (r); carl hemp, Scand golland and variant gowan, possibly akin to E gold; hulver, ling, seal ` willow,' and seave ` the rush. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seave’.
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Rushes
doubtful toad-rush, baltic rush, Rush, rush, swordleaf rush, jointleaf rush, chestnut rush, colorado rush, falcate rush, tapertip rush, spiny rush, northern green rush and 24 more...
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Retrologisms
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Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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