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syver Sc.|ˈsaɪvə(r)|
Forms: 7–9 siver, 9 syvo(u)r, syver.
[? ad. (north-eastern) OF. sewiere sewer n.1]
= syre.
1606Charter in Dallas Stiles (1697) 774 Lie sinks, sivers, guttars, eyes,..airholls [etc.]. 1793Statist. Acc. Scot. VII. 145 The manse..lies in a swamp, the inconvenience of which the present clergyman has..remedied by sivers, as they are here called. 1834J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. Aug., Wks. 1856 IV. 99 She [sc. a hare] made for the mouth o' the siver. 1867J. K. Hunter Retrospect Artist's Life vii. (1912) 66 He has faun wi' a clash in the syvour. 1894P. H. Hunter James Inwick v. 62 There was Jess an' the kimmers a' stan'in wi' their boynes an' pails at the siver. 1900J. G. Campbell Superstit. Scottish Highl. 209 An opening like the syver of a drain.
attrib.1889H. Johnston Chron. Glenbuckie 281 These guileless laddie-weans, sitting..by the syver-edge. 1906N. Munro Daft Days xiii, He stood on the syver-side. Ibid. xvi, The gulls that quarrelled in the syver sand. |