[Back-formation from EAVES, treated as pl.] Used as the sing. of EAVES. Hence Eave v., to provide with shelter under eaves; Eaved ppl. a., provided with eaves; Eaving sb. (usually pl.) = EAVES.
1580. North, Plutarch (1612), 558. Gylippus … hid them [the money he had stolne] vnder the eauings of the house.
1611. Cotgr., Agouttis.… The eauings of a house.
1710. T. Ward, Eng. Ref., i. (1716), 102 (D.). His hat … With narrow rim scarce wide enough To eave from rain the staring ruff.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 445. On these walls … is a large eaving to his house.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 402. Eave.—The skirt or lower part of the slating hanging over the naked of the wall.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. xiv. 151. The Eaved Cornice … as represented in the simplest form by cottage eaves.
1871. Tyndall, Forms Water, § 37. 258. The water trickles to the eave and then drops down.
