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Sheave - What does it mean?

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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

    *

    Not English

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