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Shive

//ʃaɪv// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A slice, especially of bread.

    "Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue"

  2. 2
    A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
  3. 3
    Alternative form of shiv. alt-of, alternative

    "So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history."

  4. 4
    Alternative spelling of shiva. alt-of, alternative

    "There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time."

  5. 5
    A sheave. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
  2. 7
    A beam or plank of split wood.
  3. 8
    A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
  4. 9
    A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

    "If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive."

  5. 10
    A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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’. The expected pronunciation would be /ʃɪv/; the pronunciation /ʃaɪv/ is probably due to the combined influence of Etymology 1 and the spelling.

Etymology 3

Variant of shiv.

Etymology 4

See shiva

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