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 SmilesNow when thou hearst a team of corves coming along, pull yon end and open the door.
Facing Death | G. A. HentyThus 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 UreBetwixt 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 UreThe reduced value of the corves is forty-nine livres fifteen sols.
The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) | Hippolyte A. Taine
British Dictionary definitions for corves
/ (kɔːvz) /
the plural of corf
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