sheave

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃiːv/

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from a Germanic - base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa ("slice"), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey-.

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

• French: réa
• German: Scheibe, Laufrolle, Seilscheibe, Umlenkrolle, Rolle
• Portuguese: roldana
• Russian: ро́лик
• Spanish: roldana

Etymology 2

See sheaf.

Verb

sheave (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

• German: bündeln

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