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shive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shive \Shive\, n. [See Sheave, n.]
A slice; as, a shive of bread. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Shak.A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "slice of bread; thin piece cut off," perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *scifa, cognate with Old Saxon sciva, Middle Dutch schive, Dutch schijf, Old High German sciba, German Scheibe; see skive (v.1). From 1869 as "thin, flat cork for a bottle."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A slice, especially of bread. 2 (context obsolete English) A sheave. 3 A beam or plank of split wood. 4 A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material. 2 (context paper-makin English) A particle of impurity in finished paper. Etymology 3
n. (alternative form of shiv English) Etymology 4
n. (alternative spelling of shiva English)
Wikipedia
A shive is a wooden or plastic fitting used in ale casks. It is found on the curved side of the cask, arranged so that when the cask is on its side and the keystone is at the lowest part of the rim, the shive will be the highest point of the cask.
The hole in that part of the cask is used for two purposes. Firstly, it is used for cleaning out and then refilling the cask, which requires a large hole. Once the cask arrives at its destination, the hole is used to control the amount of carbon dioxide present in the container, which requires a small hole. The shive is effectively an adaptor that reconciles these conflicting requirements. It is a wooden disk, larger than a keystone, that fits in the hole in the cask and has a smaller hole in its centre.
For washing and filling, the old shive is removed using a chisel or a special tool, revealing a hole around 3 inches (7.5 cm) across. Once the cask has been filled and fined, a new shive is hammered into place. The hole in the centre of the shive will be sealed with a small wooden or plastic peg. The cask is then transported to the pub.
Some time before the beer is to be served (two or three days is common; especially strong beers may require more) the cask is opened or "vented". This entails breaking the seal in the middle of the shive by punching it through into the cask with a mallet and some kind of tool. A spile is then placed in the hole to regulate the gas flow. If the beer is particularly "lively" (common in warm weather and with specific beers) the contents may spray out when the cask is vented.
During use, the hole in the centre of the shive can also be used (with the spile removed) to insert a marked dipstick in order to measure the quantity of beer remaining.
As with keystones, it is considered good form to close up the hole in the shive when returning empty casks, both to prevent spillage and to reduce bacterial and fungal contamination.
Shive may refer to:
People- Ian Shive, a nature and conservation photographer in Los Angeles, California
- John N. Shive, an American physicist and inventor (1913–1984)
- Madigan Shive, an American composer and musician from San Francisco, California
- Shive, a fitting used in ale casks
- Shive (papermaking), incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp
- Shive, Texas, a small town in Hamilton County, Texas
- Shive wave machine, a device used to demonstrate wave mechanics
A shive is a small bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the chemical pulp used in papermaking. They are smaller than knots and are more difficult to separate from the pulp. Typically the content of shives in kraft pulp is 0.1 to 1.0%. An excess of shives is a sign of poor impregnation of the wood chips. Shives are separated from the pulp in the screening and can be added back after refining. Even though shives are darker than rest of the pulp, they may pass unnoticed to the paper machine because they are easily bleached. Shives in the paper machine can cause web breakage or other operational problems. They might also end as spots in the finished paper.
Usage examples of "shive".
But always he would have a cup of tea and a great shive of hot, lardy cake with butter on it.
Daniel did not have to bend down and squint at those crabbed letters to know it was Shive Tor.
The Shive, which lay a mile off the high-tide line of the Isle of Grain, was one of those.
The rest of the company had made for that stretch of shore-line nearest Shive Tor, and posted a lookout on St.
The occupants of Shive Tor had hastily loaded some items onto the hooker, raised sail, and tried to take her down the channel to open water.
This lieutenant was to be rowed back to shore, where he was to order an advance across the tidal flats to Shive Tor.
To make this possible Newton led me and others on a wild goose chase to Shive Tor.
And disposed of them in exchange for money for rent and food, mostly with a man named Shive, a special sort of Changer in Sanctuary who asked few questions and whose sideline was the disassembling of jewelry.
He said that he had killed ten men in single combat, of whom the first was a chief called Shive, always making use of a battle-axe.
When he opened the kitchen door he actually gulped audibly as he saw young Slater sitting by the table, a mug of tea in one hand and a large shive of bread in the other.
Ali Fathi, still slicing thin shives, as of restaurant smoked salmon, from a foot-sole.
Ali Fathi, still slicing thin shives, as of restaurant smoked salmon, from a foot-sole.