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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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)

  1. 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.

Translations

See also
  • pulley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • heaves, heveas, shavee

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theave

English

Alternative forms

  • thave

Etymology

Compare Welsh dafad (“a sheep, ewe”).

Noun

theave (plural theaves)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A ewe lamb of the first year.
  2. (Britain, dialect) A sheep three years old.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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