Meaning of shide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
   obsolete
2. A southern suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).

Examples

“For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,”

“And [although] by the true intente of the said Statue everie Bende of Faggot should be Three Foote, […] the said evill disposed people doe [make] the saide Bendes or Faggots stickes much shorter, […] And that everie Tall Shide marked Two, beinge rounde bodied, shall conteine in compasse Three and twentie Inches of Assise aboute, […]”

“A quantity of pollard trees to make 1200 shides of cleft wood, computed to contain half a foot of wood or timber in each.”

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