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shive

Pronunciation: /ʃaɪv/

The English word “shive” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A slice, especially of bread.
  2. A sheave.
  3. A beam or plank of split wood.
  4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
  5. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
  6. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
  7. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
  8. A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

Etymology

A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).

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