kiver
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Example Sentences
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Pots, dishes, pans, and sich grasy commodities, Ashes and praty-skins kiver the floor; His cupboard's a storehouse of comical oddities, Things that had niver been neighbors before.
From The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 by Dunn, Jacob Piatt
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 Burke, Charles
Soon after their factory passed out of their control and their evenings ceased to be devoted to riddles in finance, they had resolved to read the Bible through, "from kiver to kiver."
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
“But there air kiver on the mounting itself,” rejoined ’Lije.
From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne
"One of you fellers put that hoss under kiver, and stranger, you come with me," said Jeff, raising Rodney's trunk from the ground and placing it upon his shoulder.
From Rodney The Partisan by Castlemon, Harry
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