† chavev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To mix or strew with chaff.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > treat with other natural fertilizer
marlc1265
chavec1420
chalk?1578
lime1649
soot1707
sand1721
straw-burn1799
sprat1832
loam?1842
guanize1843
guano1847
bone1873
herring1879
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 338 Yf thou ferne it weel, or chave.
2. To free (corn, etc.) from chaff and short straw; to separate the chaff from.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > free from chaff
cavec1420
fine1579
chave1652
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 178 Thrash it out of the straw; and then chave it or clense it from the straw.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iii. §4. 29 After you have thrashed it, and chaved it with a fine Rake.
1704 Dict. Rusticum Cave or to Chave, to divide the greater from the lesser, as the larger Chaff from the Corn.
Derivatives
chaved adj. (see sense 1 above),
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized
dungedOE
marledc1265
mucked1290
chavedc1420
dungyc1450
manured1551
fatted1552
folded1579
chalked1598
battled1600
seasoned1604
limed1707
sanded1707
fattened1725
sooted1776
wared1795
littery1805
plastered1819
nitred1822
gypsumed1841
nitrated1841
sewaged1861
sewage-irrigated1867
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 119 Do chaved cley therto.
ˈchaving n.
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1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 179 By chaving of it with a narrow toothed Rake.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iii. §4. 29 And winnowing or chaving.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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