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Sheaved vs Sheave - What's the difference?

sheaved | sheave |

As verbs the difference between sheaved and sheave

is that sheaved is (sheave) while sheave is to gather and bind into a sheaf.

As an adjective sheaved

is (of straw) made into a sheaf.

As a noun 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.

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)

    Anagrams

    *

    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

    *