Lexicographical Neighbors of Syver
Literary usage of Syver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary by James B. Montogomerie- Fleming (1899)
"A syver is not a covered drain ; it is an open gutter. ... syver," for the simple
reason that the drain is covered over with soil, the syver never is. ..."
2. A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States from the Earliest by George Tobias Flom (1909)
"In 1846 syver O. Haaland, wife and nine children, Hadle Evenson and wife Anne
... Bjb'rn Holland of Hollandale, Wisconsin, who is a son of syver Haaland,312 ..."
3. The Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston 1671-1707 by John Foulis (1894)
"... tuo oven mouth stanes, seting up yc caldron and all counts to this day . . .
.200 15 agreed w* wm Aitken for building ye syver in ye walk for 8"h 8sh 0 ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"Fr. sourdine, the pipe of a trumpet. SYRE, s. V. SCHI». SYRE, s. A sewer, S.
syver. ... RUMBLING syver, a drain filled with stones thrown loosely together, ..."
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