† everrv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To sweep out (a place).
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Euerre, to sweepe the house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.1623- to keep one's room
- to keep one's seat
- to keep one's silence
- to keep one's standing
- to keep one's state
- to keep one's station
- to keep one's temper
- to keep one's terms
- to keep one's the wind
- to keep one's threap
- to keep one's toe in one's pump
- to keep one's tongue
- to keep one's top eye open
- to keep one's touch
- to keep one's trap shut
- to keep one's way
- to keep one's weather-eye open
- to keep one's weathereye open
- to keep one's wicket up
- to keep one's wind
- to keep one's wool
- to keep one's word
- to keep one'the hand in use
- to keep one'the house
- to keep one'the options open