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third-person singular simple present kerves, present participle kerving, simple past and past participle kerved
Obsolete form of carve. quotations examples
In that figure […] Plinius saw him kerved.
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
That else was like to sterve Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie