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Sleaved vs Sheaved - What's the difference?

sleaved | sheaved |

As adjectives the difference between sleaved and sheaved

is that sleaved is raw; not spun or wrought while sheaved is (of straw) made into a sheaf.

As a verb sheaved is

(sheave).

sleaved

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Raw; not spun or wrought.
    • sleaved thread or silk
    (Holinshed)
    (Webster 1913)

    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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