shide

Pronunciation: /ʃaɪd/

The English word “shide” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.

Etymology

From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”). Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”),…

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