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▪ I. kiver Obs. exc. dial.|ˈkɪvə(r)|
Also 5 kevere, 7 keuer, keaver, kiever, 8 keever.
[app. connected with keeve, kive: but the force of the suffix is unexplained.]
A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
α1407in Kennett Par. Ant. (1818) II. 212 Et pro novo Cowele empto, ixd. Et pro novo Kevere empto, viiid. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. x. 1, Wiping the Bees,..into a keuer or other vessel. 1610Althorp MS. in Simpkinson The Washingtons (1860) p. vii, Itm little keavers..iiij. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 109 Either a tub or kiever or else a square chest. 1706Phillips, Keeve or Keever, a kind of Tub.
β1623C. Butler Fem. Mon. (ed. 2) x. 11, A Ridder, resting vpon Tongs ouer a cleane Pan or Kiuer that will not leake. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. III. i. 129 Divide [the milk] into several pans, or leads, or kivers. 1750― Country Housew. 19 Kneading-kiver, or trough, or tub. 1876S. Warwicksh. Gloss., Kiver, the tub that the butter is made up in. 1881Oxfordsh. Gloss. Suppl., Kiver, a trough to make dough, butter, &c. in. 1884W. Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., Brew vat and stand, oval Kiver, two 50-gallon casks.
▪ II. kiver
obs. and dial. form of cover n. and v. |