Sc. Forms: 7–9 siver, 9 syvo(u)r, syver. [? ad. (north-eastern) OF. sewiere SEWER sb.1] = SYRE.

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1606.  Charter, in Dallas, Stiles (1697), 774. Lie sinks, sivers, guttars, eyes,… airholls [etc.].

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1793.  Statist. Acc. Scot., VII. 145. The manse … lies in a swamp, the inconvenience of which the present clergyman has … remedied by sivers, as they are here called.

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1834.  J. Wilson, Noctes Ambr., Aug., Wks. 1856, IV. 99. She [sc. a hare] made for the mouth o’ the siver.

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1867.  J. K. Hunter, Retrospect Artist’s Life, vii. (1912), 66. He has faun wi’ a clash in the syvour.

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1894.  P. H. Hunter, James Inwick, v. 62. There was Jess an’ the kimmers a’ stan’in wi’ their boynes an’ pails at the siver.

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1900.  J. G. Campbell, Superstit. Scottish Highl., 209. An opening like the syver of a drain.

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  attrib.  1889.  H. Johnston, Chron. Glenbuckie, 281. These guileless laddie-weans, sitting … by the syver-edge.

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1906.  N. Munro, Daft Days, xiii. He stood on the syver-side. Ibid., xvi. The gulls that quarrelled in the syver sand.

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