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sheave
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Etymology 1
Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”). For more see shive.
Noun
sheave (plural sheaves)
- A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
- A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Translations
Etymology 2
See sheaf.
Verb
sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)
- To gather and bind into a sheaf.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
- From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
- Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
- Their country's harvest.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
Translations
See also
- pulley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- heaves, heveas, shavee
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seave
English
Etymology
From Old Norse sef, whence also Danish siv, Icelandic sef and Swedish säv (“club-rush”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?v
Noun
seave (plural seaves)
- (Britain, dialect) A rush (the plant).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Britain, dialect) A wick made from this plant.
Derived terms
- seavy
References
Anagrams
- Eaves, eaves
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