kurveying, verbal noun

Forms:
Also karveying, karweying.
Origin:
From kurvey.
obs.
transport-riding. Also attributive.
1876 T. Stubbs Reminiscences. I. 49I tryed a trip at Kerveying, I took a load to Fort Wiltshire.
1876 T. Stubbs Reminiscences. I. 50We got the waggon and I reach Town in two days, and gave up Kerveying.
1886 Grocott’s Penny Mail Nov. 29Karweying in South Africa.
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 29‘I know there will be an end to those visits one of those days,’ said the merchant, ‘and then good-bye to your karweying, Walters.’
1896 M.A. Carey-Hobson At Home in Tvl 515I’ve been obliged to take to the karveying (transport riding) again.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 81‘Kurveying’ (the conducting of transport by bullock-waggon) in itself constituted a great industry.
1907 T.R. Sim Forests & Forest Flora 58The Wagonwood of the Cape is not excelled by that from any other country, the extraordinary endurance of local wagons during the old Kurveying days before railways existed..having given complete satisfaction to the most fastidious.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 285During the last thirty or forty years the railways have wrought a change, but kurveying is still a remunerative employment in some parts.
c1960 J.M. Donald in J.B. Bullock Peddie — Settlers’ Outpost 40It is..to be surmised that his occupation at Peddie was trading, and ‘karveying’ or transporting.
transport-riding. Also attributive.
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