Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerving
Literary usage of Kerving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Convention and Revolt in Poetry by John Livingston Lowes (1919)
"... “and yet it maketh sharpe kerving toles.” And it is mere captiousness masquerading
in the guise of criticism, that cavils at a whetstone because it's ..."
2. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"A whelp that first doth miss of his game, doth never after prove worth an haw.
—Melb., Phil., p. 5o. A whetstone is no kerving instrument, but it maketh ..."