Sheave vs Shiv - What's the difference?
sheave | shiv |
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.
to gather and bind into a sheaf
* , Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
(computing) A shim, i.e. a small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
To stab someone with a shiv.
(by extension) To stab someone with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.
As nouns the difference between sheave and shiv
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 shiv is a knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).As verbs the difference between sheave and shiv
is that sheave is to gather and bind into a sheaf while shiv is to stab someone with a shiv.sheave
English
Etymology 1
Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse . For more see .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
See .Verb
(sheav)- ''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
- ''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
- ''Their country's harvest.