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Sheave vs Theave - What's the difference?

sheave | theave |

As nouns the difference between sheave and theave

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 theave is (uk|dialect) a ewe lamb of the first year.

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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    theave

    English

    Alternative forms

    * thave

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A ewe lamb of the first year.
  • (UK, dialect) A sheep three years old.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)