1530. Palsgr., Quave myre, foundriere, crouliere.
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 404. Pooles, Marishes,… and Quauemires.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 221. Dyonisius was forced to leave his horse sticking fast in a quave-mire. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit., 529. The Lower [part] hath in it foule and slabby quave mires, yea and most troublesome fennes.
fig. 1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 206. They do winne nothing by thys distinction: seeing that they fall back into the same quavemire.
