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Sheave vs Seave - What's the difference?

sheave | seave |

As nouns the difference between sheave and seave

is that sheave is 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 while seave is (uk|dialect) a rush (the plant).

As a verb sheave

is to gather and bind into a sheaf.

sheave

English

Etymology 1

Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse . For more see .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    See .

    Verb

    (sheav)
  • to gather and bind into a sheaf
  • * , 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.
    See also
    * (pulley)

    Anagrams

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    seave

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A rush (the plant).
    • (Halliwell)

    Derived terms

    * seavy

    References

    (Webster 1913)