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Definition of Screeving
1. screeve [v] - See also: screeve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Screeving
Literary usage of Screeving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the Plains by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1890)
"The one that's a-coming round the The cats were very popular, and so were The
crowd was gathered round a street-artist who was " screeving," or drawing ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"He draws 'em in chalks, mostly ; he done some for a man as goes ' screeving ' on
the flags. Mr. Fenton does no end for 'im ; and 'e sticks 'em up as 'is own ..."
3. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"... and especially the "screeving" or begging-letter writing class, we have reason
to believe that there is much more), we shall have, in round numbers, ..."
4. The Grey Man by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1896)
"It seemed a most pitiful sight to me, that was but a young lad (and had never
seen a fire bigger than a screed of muir- burn screeving across the hills with ..."
5. Yorkshire Folk-talk: With Characteristics of Those who Speak it in the North by Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris (1892)
"F. To mark wood or other substance by scratching the surface; the instrument with
which the mark is made is called a screeving-iron. ..."
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