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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cheven.

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Examples

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were for chiving wafodo dloovu, they left me all they had, which was not a little, and I became the head of our family, which was not a small one.

    Lavengro 2004

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were for chiving wafodo dloovu, they left me all they had, which was not

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were for chiving wafodo dloovu, they left me all they had, which was not a little, and I became the head of our family, which was not a small one.

    Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were, for chiving wafodo dloovu, they left me all they had, which was not

    Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were, for chiving wafodo dloovu, {163a} they left me all they had, which was not a little, and I became the head of our family, which was not a small one.

    Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

  • When my father and mother were bitchadey pawdel, which, to tell you the truth, they were, for chiving wafodo dloovu, they left me all they had, which was not

    Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

  • That moft honourable gentleman, Lucius Lucullus, fuffered fbme time this kind of mock reproach; and alfo the great Auguftus himfelf, an horrible and - moft ftrange delight in de-» chiving, which will not fbrfake wretched fouls HOPE OF WINNING AT GAMES.

    Petrarch's View of Human Life: By Mrs. Dobson 1791

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