kiver

• IPA^(key): /kivɚ/, /kɪvɚ/

kiver (third-person singular simple present kivers, present participle kivering, simple past and past participle kivered)

1. (archaic, dialect) To cover.

kiver (plural kivers)

1. (archaic, dialect) Cover.
2. A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiver.

• “kiver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

ki- +‎ ver

• IPA^(key): [ˈkivɛr]
• Hyphenation: ki‧ver
• Rhymes: -ɛr

kiver

1. (transitive, of clothing, rugs) to beat (dust out of)
2. (transitive) to knock out

   kiveri a pipájából a hamut ― to knock the cinders from one's pipe

3. (transitive) to get out

   Nem tudom kiverni a fejemből. ― I can't get it out of my head.

4. (transitive) to encrust (inset or affix decorative materials upon a surface)
5. (slang, with transitive suffixes) to masturbate, jerk off

• kiver in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Middle English keveren, from Old French covrir, from Latin cooperīre, present active infinitive of cooperiō.

• IPA^(key): /kɪˈviː/

kiver (simple past kivert)

1. to cover

• neckarès

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 50