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Original entry ↗noun
A bleaching vat; a kier. · A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. · A large vat used in dressing ores.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation. · To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
From Middle English kive, from Old English cȳf (“vat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Related to French cuve. Doublet of coupe, cup, and hive.
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