for preserves. So pronounced in some parts of the West.
We had also [for dinner] custard pies, and maple molasses, (usually called 'them 'are molasses,') and preserved apples, preserved water-melon-rinds, and preserved red peppers and tomatoes--all termed, for brevity's sake, (like words in Webster's Dictionary,) sarves.--Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 183.