sheave
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʃiːv/
From Middle English, from a Germanic - base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa ("slice"), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey-.
Nounsheave (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.
- French: réa
- German: Scheibe, Laufrolle, Seilscheibe, Umlenkrolle, Rolle
- Portuguese: roldana
- Russian: ро́лик
- Spanish: roldana
See sheaf.
Verbsheave (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
- German: bündeln
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