- present tense form of aver (3rd person singular).
avers
Example Sentences
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I have platters, dishes, saucers and candle-sticks, Chafers, lavers, towels and fine tricks: Posnets, frying-pans, and fine puddingpricks ...
From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by Hazlitt, William Carew
And behind, out of sight, there were a hundred flat dishes of silver, and an equal number of lavers.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
True, they were both to wash in; the sea to wash the worshippers, but the lavers to wash the sacrifice.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John
Beyond this, there were ten lavers, smaller in size, for the washing of such things as were offered in sacrifice.
From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by Milligan, George
But Poseidon stirred the winds and waves against me, and I was thrown upon the shores of this island, near the lavers, where thy daughter and her maids went to wash the household linen.
From Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)
