scrieve

English

Verb

scrieve (third-person singular simple present scrieves, present participle scrieving, simple past and past participle scrieved)

1. (dated, Scotland) 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.

Noun

scrieve (plural scrieves)

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, […]

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

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

Derived terms

• scrieve board
• scrieve knife

Anagrams

• Service, cerevis, service

Scots

Alternative forms

• screeve, scrive, skrieve

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin scrībō.

Verb

scrieve (third-person singular simple present scrieves, present participle scrievein, simple past scrievet, past participle scrievet)

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

Noun

scrieve (plural scrieves)

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

Related terms

• scriver
• scrift

Further reading

• “scrieve” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.