kiver
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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He wuz my messmate an' marchin' comrid, an' we slept many a night side by side on the ground, under the same blanket, when we wuz fortunit 'nough to hev blankets to kiver us.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
Rip.No butter firkin mit no kiver no place, no I ain't seen him.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle by Charles Burke
Jes' put 'em down in de ashes and kiver 'em over an' den fergit 'em, jes' fergit 'em.
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
W'en de big owl whoops, An' de screech owl screeks, An' de win' makes a howlin' sound; You liddle wooly heads Had better kiver up, Caze de "hants" is comin' 'round.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
I ha’nt enough silver left to kiver a spittle with; an’ as for these rags, they arn’t goin’ to fetch me a fortune.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
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