1382. Wyclif, Esther xi. 5. There semeden voisis … and thundris, and erthe quaues, and disturbing up on the erthe.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, I. iii. (1558), 5. God … may confounde it with an erth quaue.
1540–1. Elyot, Image Gov. (1549), 67. Where diuerse citees by earthe quaues had ben frushed, and therewith defourmed.
