Definitions for eave

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Spelling: [eev]
IPA: /iv/

Eave is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in eave (aeev).

Definitions for eave

noun

  1. Usually, eaves. the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
  2. Often, eaves. the overhanging edge of anything, as a hat.

Origin of eave

before 1000; Middle English eves, Old English efes; cognate with Old High German obisa, Gothic ubizwa hall; cf. above, over

Examples for eave

Why should he trouble to climb up the bank and bring down the eave of the cave?

Raggedy Andy said, "We will look around the bend in the eave!"

From the day of his son's death until the illegal papers were found in the eave of his house, he had never rested one moment.

"Now when I says 'eave—'eave," Bindle admonished the porter.

Mark's is above—look, under where the eave hangs out, away to the left.

The shadow of the eave of a roof can be obtained in the same way.

At the end of a row of your brothers' nests, as the eave Swallows do?

He hung underneath an eave of the soft surface and could not be moved.

My night was disturbed by the old Hamoumi chief choosing the eave of our tent just beside my ear to say his prayers.

There are the common barn swallow, the eave swallow, tree swallow and bank swallow.

Word Value for eave
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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