seave
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse sef,[1] whence also Danish siv, Icelandic sef and Swedish säv (“club-rush”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editseave (plural seaves)
- (UK, dialect) A rush (the plant).
- (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- (UK, dialect) A wick made from this plant.
References
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)