As nouns the difference between shives and shive
is that
shives is while
shive is a slice, especially of bread or
shive can be (obsolete) a splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material or
shive can be or
shive can be .
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shives English
Noun
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shive English
Etymology 1
( wikipedia shive)
A parallel form of ( sheave), from a ( etyl) base which probably existed in ( etyl) (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with ( etyl) Scheibe, late ( etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A slice, especially of bread.
* 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers :
- In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
(obsolete) A sheave.
A beam or plank of split wood.
A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.
Etymology 2
From a (etyl) base which probably existed in Old English (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with (etyl) Schebe, (etyl) scheef.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
(paper-makin) A particle of impurity in finished paper.
Etymology 3
Variant of shiv.
Noun
( en noun)
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 50:
- So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.
Etymology 4
See shiva
Noun
* 2010 , , A Life of Learning
- There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.
Derived terms
* sit shive
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