corves

How to use corves in a sentence

• The corves were placed together in a cage, between which and the pit-ropes there was usually from fifteen to twenty feet of chain.

  Lives of the Engineers | Samuel Smiles

• Now when thou hearst a team of corves coming along, pull yon end and open the door.

  Facing Death | G. A. Henty

• Thus the engine may move with great rapidity, while it imparts an equable slow motion to the corves ascending in the shaft.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure

• Betwixt these guides, friction-roller sliders are placed, attached to the gin-ropes, to which sliders the corves are suspended.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure

• The reduced value of the corves is forty-nine livres fifteen sols.

  The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) | Hippolyte A. Taine