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Flax splinter
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shive
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.