Meaning of Shive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A slice, especially of bread.
3. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
4. Alternative spelling of shiva.
   alt-of, alternative
5. A sheave.
   obsolete
6. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
7. A beam or plank of split wood.
8. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
9. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
10. A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

Equivalents

Examples

“Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue”

“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.”

“If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.”

“So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.”

“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.”

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