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Wedge-shaped piece of wood
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shim
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1723, a Kentish word of unknown origin. Originally a piece of iron fitted to a plow for scraping soil; meaning "thin slip of wood to fill up a space or raise a level" is from 1860.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer programming , a shim is a small library that transparently intercepts API calls and changes the arguments passed, handles the operation itself, or redirects the operation elsewhere. Shims can be used to support an old API in a newer environment, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shim \Shim\, n. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds. (Mach.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices [also: shimming , shimmed ]
Usage examples of shim.
Shim of Seant went down with an arrow through the throat, and he was dead before they turned him over.
Big Likim, the brasshide, would need a new dragonboy when this was over, and little Shim would never see his beloved hills of Seant again.
Astoria looked critically along the two rails, one well set nearly flush in concrete, the other standing above the trench on its shims.
Shim and me, but by you folks with the titles and the swords and the responsibilities, eh, Father?
He dropped five tongue depressors onto the pile on the shim mering fabric of the medical diagnostic bed, and in his most authoritative voice, he said, 'Tll see your five.
Using blades of grass and twigs from the lawn as shims, she finally got the bowl exactly level and perfectly full, so that the water in the basin was poised to brim over, held in place all the way around by surface tension alone.
And still and all at that time of the dynast days of old konning Soteric Sulkinbored and Bargomuster Bart, when they struck coil and shock haunts, in old Hungerford-on-Mudway, where first I met thee oldpoetryck flied from may and the Finnan haddies and the Noal Sharks and the muckstails turtles like an acoustic pottish and the griesouper bullyum and how he poled him up his boccat of vuotar and got big buzz for his name in the airweek's honours from home, colonies and empire, they were always with assisting grace, thinking (up) and not forgetting about shims and shawls week, in auld land syne (up) their four hosenbands, that were four (up) beautiful sister misters, now happily married, unto old Gallstonebelly, and there they were always counting and contradicting every night .
He shimmed the blade behind the marble plaque, moved it slowly along all four edges, then stuck the crowbar into the newly created joint and gave a sharp tug.
The dwarf did get a hand off his club fast enough to tap the bottle over him, though, and he spun about immediately and shimmed the slow-moving missile with his club, creating a small fireball and showering the approaching assassin with glass shards and flaming liquid.