Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
carve . - In coal-mining. See kirve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To carve.
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Examples
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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Gaylede: Take almaunde mylke and flowre of rys, and do therto sugre or hony, and powder gyngere; then take fygs, and kerve them ato, or roysonys yhole, or harde wastel ydicyd and coloure it with saunderys and sette it and dresse hem yn.
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Al sholde I with this knyf my throte kerve -- '325
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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On which {e} with {e} clene knyf [ye] yo {ur} chese mowe kerve; 184
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on peces, and cast hem on boillyng water & seeþ it wele. take chese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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