scrieve
English
Verb
scrieve (third-person singular simple present scrieves, present participle scrieving, simple past and past participle scrieved)
- (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.
- 1997, Nicholas Crane, "Clear Waters Rising : a mountain walk across Europe", London: Penguin Books.
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