Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of cover.
  • A Middle English form of cover.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To cover.

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Examples

  • Nym wyte Pisyn and wasch hem and seth hem a good wyle sithsyn wasch hem in golde [1] watyr unto the holys gon of alle in a pot and kever it wel that no breth passe owt and boyle hem ryzt wel and do therto god mylk of Almandys and a party of flowr of ris and salt and safron and messe yt forthe.

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • Therefore it is wisdom to let alone those Bulwarkes without, and to fortifie thenterance of the toune, and to kever the gates of the same with turnyngs after suche sort, that men cannot goe in nor oute of the gate by right line: and from the tournynges to the gate, to make a diche with a bridge.

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • This mishugaas of chassidim spending tens of millions of dollars at a time when so many are hurting economically to charter private jets and travel thousands of miles to ther rav's kever should end.

    Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) 2009

  • Rapp added that he had much respect for the late minister, who attended his daughter's funeral and delivered a eulogy at the kever.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2009

  • Hatazalah Volunteers as well as Magen David Adom had paramedics and volunteers on site to assist by the kever.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • Preceding the evening event will be a memorial at the kever in Har Menuchos at 16: 00.

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • The kever, the holy resting place, of Rabbi Yehuda bar Ilai, one of the 5 disciplines of Rabbi Akiva, lies on the side of the road near the entrance to the holy city of Tzfat.

    Mystical Paths 2008

  • A standing peeoe, with kever, weying 19 ounces & i.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges 1812

  • But my brother and Tzibu decided to go to Poland to find my mother’s kever in Warsaw, and Tzibu also wanted to visit her mother’s kever in Hungary.

    The Miracle Candle | Jewschool 2003

  • Through the years since the war, my brother could never rest easy because he couldn’t make peace with the fact that our mother did not have a matzevah on her kever.

    The Miracle Candle | Jewschool 2003

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