Obs. [F. cuve:—L. cūpa.] A cask, vat.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 577/22. Cuva, a cuve or a vaat.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 175. Wine, one million two hundred thousand Cuves.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., I. ix. 95. As the wine which pleaseth in the cuve must be drunk in the must.
