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Shaved vs Sheaved - What's the difference?

shaved | sheaved |

As verbs the difference between shaved and sheaved

is that shaved is (shave) while sheaved is (sheave).

As an adjective sheaved is

(of straw) made into a sheaf.

shaved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shave)

    • shave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shaven, schaven, from (etyl) , (etyl) skafa.

    Verb

  • To make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
  • To cut anything in this fashion.
    • The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.
  • To remove hair from one's face by this means.
    • I had little time to shave this morning.
  • To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
  • To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
  • * Milton
    • Now shaves with level wing the deep.
  • * 1899 ,
  • (archaic) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
  • (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.
    • Derived terms
    * aftershave * reshave * shave brush / shaving brush * shaving bump * shave cream / shaving cream * shave foam / shaving foam * shave down * shave off * shaveling * unshaved

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) sceafa

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of shaving.
    • I instructed the barber to give me a shave .
  • A thin slice; a shaving.
    • (Wright)
  • (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
  • (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
  • A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
    • Derived terms
    * close shave

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    sheaved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sheave)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (of straw) Made 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)

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