Lexicographical Neighbors of Scriving
Literary usage of Scriving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"Pitch pine is the best, for its surface does not tear under the scriving knife
even though the lines be close together, and, as it is hard, the lines are ..."
2. The Miscellany of the Wodrow Society: Containing Tracts and Original Letters by David Laing (1844)
"... the meane tyme) such as are turne cotes, and can change with all seasons, (and
sail with everie wynd,) sub- scriving to whatsoever, how ignorant, ..."
3. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"That she mought do me no harm, I crossed her hand with a taster, and bid her tell
my fortune; and she told me such things—de- scriving Mr Clinker to a hair; ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"(A.-N.) A writer ; a transcriber. SCRIVENER, ». A writing-master. ScRiviNG-moN, ».
An instrument used for numbering trees for sale. ..."
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