eaven.
/iːv/ Used as the singular of eaves n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > eaves
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1746 Fool (1748) I. 29 A Stone Cornice..which..would make a pretty Eve over the Kitchen Windows.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 402 Eave.—The skirt or lower part of the slating hanging over the naked of the wall.
1871 J. Tyndall Forms of Water §37. 258 The water trickles to the eave and then drops down.
Derivatives
eave v. to provide with shelter under eaves.
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a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1716) i. 102 His hat..With narrow rim scarce wide enough To eave from rain the staring ruff.
eaved adj. provided with eaves.
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1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xiv. 151 The Eaved Cornice..as represented in the simplest form by cottage eaves.
ˈeaving n. (usually pl.) = eaves n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > eaves
eavesa1000
eavesing?c1225
easinga1400
eaving1579
dropping1596
French eaves1634
eave1823
lop-eaves1880
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 489 He hid the money he had stolen, vnder the house eauinges.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Agouttis, the eauings of a house.
1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd (1665) 187 A little Mouse Streight she presents on th' Evins of the House.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 445 On these walls..is a large eaving to his house.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 331 Near unto the evings of the house [sc. Hen House] should be long perches.
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