kiver

«kiver» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: cover — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

cover

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To cover over. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in ordinary speech; today we say "cover". It appears here in dialect speech.

examples

• "Nex' mornin' de meezles 'd done kivered me, an' den ef I didn't git dosted by de ole 'oman I'm a Chinee. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em onto me like she was roofin' a house. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• Bimeby she crawls in, an' de shingles w'at she put on her side fer ter kiver wid, dey all drap off on de flo'. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →

primary record

cover

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kiver» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.