Talk:tirve

The old NED has a verb tirve, terve "to strip (of clothes, skin, a roof, etc)": See also tervy, Citations:terve, Citations:tervee. - -sche (discuss) 20:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 1500-20, Dunbar, Poems, lxxii, 23:
 * Of his claithis thai tirvit him bair.
 * 1533, Bellenden, Livy, v xi (S.T.S.) II, 187:
 * He gart tirve [v.r. tyrff] þis master nakit
 * 1590-1, Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV, 587:
 * The said Naper [...] and others [...] come and tirvit the said complenaris houssis, and tuke of the rigging and thak thairof.