keep cave
verb/kiːp ˈkeɪvi/
Etymology Used in Southern England. See cave (“look out, beware”).
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UK To maintain vigilance.
- I vote we go down and explore. No one will come up this time o' day. We needn't keep cavé.1899 January, Rudyard Kipling, “An Unsavoury Interlude”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 73:
- I'll keep cave for ten minutes.1911, Cosmo Hamilton, “Why Cupid Came to Earl’s Court”, in Short Plays for Small Stages, page 9:
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- Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back verandah to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.1912, Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians, page 154: