Verb

scrieve (third-person singular simple present scrieves, present participle scrieving, simple past and past participle scrieved)Category:English lemmas#SCRIEVECategory:English verbs#SCRIEVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with entries#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#SCRIEVE

1. (datedCategory:English dated terms#SCRIEVE, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SCRIEVE) To glide or move smoothly.
   • 1997, Nicholas Crane, Clear Waters Rising : a mountain walk across Europe, London: Penguin Books:

     Unlike the monotonous tones of London's streets, the sounds changed every few steps, so that the rattle of pollarded oaks could be followed by the trumpeting of bullfrogs and then the sudden sigh of scrieving swifts.

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Noun

scrieve (plural scrieves)Category:English lemmas#SCRIEVECategory:English nouns#SCRIEVECategory:English countable nouns#SCRIEVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with entries#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#SCRIEVE

1. The design plan for building a ship.
   • 1919, Walter Pollock, Hot Bulb Oil Engines and Suitable Vessels, page 206:

     When additional vessels were required, the drawings, patterns and scrieves would all be ready, […]

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   • 1958, Duncan Burn, The Structure of British Industry: A Symposium, page 109:

     Orders for two dozen tankers to be produced off the same scrieve […]

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Anagrams

• Service, cerevis, service

Alternative forms

• screeve, scrive, skrieve

Etymology

Ultimately from LatinCategory:Scots terms derived from Latin#SCRIEVE scrībō.

Verb

scrieve (third-person singular simple present scrieves, present participle scrievein, simple past and past participle scrievet)Category:Scots lemmas#SCRIEVECategory:Scots verbs#SCRIEVECategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with entries#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#SCRIEVE

1. to write
2. to scratch or incise a mark

Noun

scrieve (plural scrieves)Category:Scots lemmas#SCRIEVECategory:Scots nouns#SCRIEVECategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with entries#SCRIEVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#SCRIEVE

1. piece of writing, letter
2. banknote
3. tool for incising a mark on wood; scribe

Further reading

• “scrieve”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.