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Sheaved vs Shealed - What's the difference?

sheaved | shealed |

As verbs the difference between sheaved and shealed

is that sheaved is past tense of sheave while shealed is past tense of sheal.

As an adjective sheaved

is made into a sheaf.

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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    shealed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sheal)

    • sheal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A shell or pod.
  • A shieling

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shell (remove husks, shells etc)
  • * Shakespeare, King Lear
    • That's a shealed peascod.
  • To shelter under a shieling