'Shawn Keogh runs in carrying a cleeve on his back, followed by the Widow Quin.' From 'The Playboy of the Western World' by J. M. Synge
'The cleeve is a basket made of sally rods and is still used for carrying turf, potatoes and turnips. The cleeve was made to hold a hundredweight of turnips or potatoes.' From ‘Weights And Measures Of The Major Food Commodities In Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Regional Perspective’. By DERMOT FEENAN, School of Law, University of Ulster, and LIAM KENNEDY, School of Modern History, Queen’s University, Belfast Received 25 October 2000. Read 5 February 2001. Published 11 November 2002, Abstract, page 28
Cleever; one who deals in poultry; because he carries them in a cleeve or large wicker basket, (Morris: South Monaghan.) Irish cliabh [cleeve], a basket. From P. W. Joyce's "English As We Speak It In Ireland." (1910).
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