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Sleave vs Sheave - What's the difference?

sleave | sheave |

As verbs the difference between sleave and sheave

is that sleave is (weaving) to separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads while sheave is to gather and bind into a sheaf.

As nouns the difference between sleave and sheave

is that sleave is the knotted or entangled part of silk or thread while 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.

sleave

English

Verb

(sleav)
  • (weaving) To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads.

    • Synonyms

    * sley

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
  • Silk not yet twisted; floss.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
    (Webster 1913)

    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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