louver
French, verb/lu.ve/
louver is spelled L-O-U-V-E-R (6 letters). Louver is a French verb meaning “to drill a hole in a stone for the attachment of a wedge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un trou dans une pierre pour y mettre la louve dans le but de la soulever”.
What does louver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drill a hole in a stone for the attachment of a wedge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un trou dans une pierre pour y mettre la louve dans le but de la soulever. 2. Poser des collets pour attraper des oiseaux
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of louver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- louvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- louvé participle past
- louve first-person indicative present
- louves indicative present second-person
- louvons first-person indicative plural
- louvez indicative plural present
- louvent indicative plural present
- louvais first-person imperfect indicative
- louvait imperfect indicative singular
- louvions first-person imperfect indicative
- louviez imperfect indicative plural
- louvaient imperfect indicative plural
- louvai first-person historic indicative
- louvas historic indicative past
- louva historic indicative past
- louvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce louver?
- /lu.ve/
- \lu.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.