Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large vat or tub used for various purposes, as for dressing ores in mining, for holding the lye in bleaching (in which sense it is also called a keir), as a brewers' mashing-tub, etc.
  • To put in a keeve for fermentation, etc.
  • To overturn or lift up, as a cart, so as to unload it all at once.

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

  • transitive verb To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
  • noun (Brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
  • noun (Bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.
  • noun (Mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun brewing A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.
  • noun bleaching A bleaching vat; a kier.
  • noun mining A large vat used in dressing ores.
  • verb To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
  • verb Provincial English To heave; to tilt, as a cart.

Etymologies

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This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. Derived from Old English "cȳf" meaning a vat. (Macdonald, A. M., ed. (1972) Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary; new ed. Edinburgh: Chambers; p. 719)

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