shive

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• boon, shove

Origin

• A parallel form of sheave, from a Proto-Germanic base which probably existed in Old English (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa ("slice"), brauðskífa (whence Danish skive ("disc, slice")), Dutch schijf ("disc, slice").
• From Middle English schyfe, schyffe, from Proto-Germanic *skibō-; cognate with German Schäbe, Dutch scheef, and Low German Schääv, all ‘fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp’.
• Variant of shiv.
• See shiva