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kiver

/kiv-er/US // ˈkɪv ər //

凯弗尔,凯弗

Definitions

  1. 1

    New England, Midland, and Southern U.S. Dialect.

    • : cover.

Examples

  • Jes' put 'em down in de ashes and kiver 'em over an' den fergit 'em, jes' fergit 'em.

  • Miss Unity, when you done sont dat kiver ter Richmon', what you gwine investigate dat piano wif?

  • The 'squire has been so kind as to rap my bit of nonsense under the kiver of his own sheet—O, Mary Jones!

  • Then I writ with a pencil on the kiver these words, 'Please restore missin' buttons and stitch up holes.'

  • Kiver, kive, keever, a large vessel for fermenting liquors; a mashing tub.