kerve

kerve (third-person singular simple present kerves, present participle kerving, simple past and past participle kerved)

1. Obsolete form of carve.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     In that figure […] Plinius saw him kerved.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     That else was like to sterve Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve.

• “kerve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

kerve

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of kerven

• kever

kerve

1. Alternative form of kerven