cauf

plural cauves

1. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

   The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.

   1926: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports, volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)

plural cauves

1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of calf.

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   An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves, six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.

   1845, Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day, pages 40–41