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sheave

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to gather up in sheaves," 1570s; see sheaf . Related: Sheaved ; sheaving . Earlier verb in this sense was simply sheaf (c.1500).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sheave, is a pulley with a grooved wheel for holding a belt , wire rope , or rope . The grooved wheel spins inside the frame of the sheave. This allows the wire or rope to move freely minimizing wear and abrasion on cable. Sheaves can be used to redirect ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley. Etymology 2 vb. to gather and bind into a sheaf

Usage examples of sheave.

Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovereignty.

Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!

Occasionally, as we floated down, vineyards were visible with the vines trained on horizontal trellises, or bamboo rails, often forty feet long, nailed horizontally on cryptomeria to a height of twenty feet, on which small sheaves of barley were placed astride to dry till the frame was full More forest, more dreams, then the forest and the abundant vegetation altogether disappeared, the river opened out among low lands and banks of shingle and sand, and by three we were on the outskirts of Niigata, whose low houses,--with rows of stones upon their roofs, spread over a stretch of sand, beyond which is a sandy roll with some clumps of firs.

Mr Cupples walked aside with Thomas, and they seated themselves on two golden sheaves at the foot of a stook.

We paused only to plug detonators into the four kilos of plastique that we had previously molded around sheaves of water, gas, and other pipes that crossed or paralleled some portions of the tunnels.

Then Will Skeat gave a great shout that more arrows had come, and Thomas and his archers ran back into the river to find Father Hobbe with a pack mule loaded with two panniers of arrow sheaves.

Hrodlind appeared in the doorway, and seeing that I was up, hurried to set out a fresh shift and one of my finer tunicas, the saffron silk with embroideries of wheat sheaves around the hem.

Zonatitucan to be decorated with images of the sun, sheaves of grain, totems of rain and river gods, the archetypal givers-of-life common to most prescientific civilizations.

Some women were unbinding sheaves, others were raking up the scattered straw and ears, and others again were gathering great armfuls of corn and handing them to the men to feed the machine.

Flights of helicopters, unrejoicing, came bringing in the sheaves to the division hospital.

Laura and I will go to Watersmeet and retrieve this talisman and bear our sheaves rejoicing to the Axehead police station.

Loose-leaf sheaves were piled high on any flat surface that would hold them, or posted chockablock on bulletin boards.

Moreover, the doors of such a shop are usually hung with sheaves of popular prints on large sheets, which witness to the innate giftedness of the Russian man.

The grainfields were all reaped stubble, not even any sheaves of grain standing in the fields.

Belishba, Chalcon, Gelt, Lapan and Kabin of the Waters: Ortelga, Paltesh, Tonilda, Ur-tah, Yelda and Sarkid of the Sheaves.