| What the collection of the taxes had begun was almost always brought to a climax by the corves. |
| No cage was used, rope and chain wound the corves up the shaft and the men and boys rode the rope by inserting a wooden step into the rope and hanging on. |
| Next to the corves, the monster grievance of the third estate was the system of enrolments for the militia. |
| All workings here are contrived so that the full corves are put down an inclination and the empty ones up. |
| The hurriers were not employed by the mine owners but worked directly for a collier who was paid according to the number of corves sent to bank. |
| In George Stephenson's day the coals were drawn out of the pit in corves, or large baskets made of hazel rods. |
