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Webster 1913 Edition

Sheave

Sheave

,
Noun.
[Akin to OD.
schijve
orb, disk, wheel, D.
schiff
, G.
scheibe
, Icel.
skīfa
a shaving, slice; cf. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] a staff. Cf.
Shift
,
Verb.
,
Shive
.]
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.
Sheave hole
,
a channel cut in a mast, yard, rail, or other timber, in which to fix a sheave.

Sheave

,
Verb.
T.
[See
Sheaf
of straw.]
To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
Ashmole.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sheave

SHEAVE

,
Noun.
In seamen's language, a wheel in which the rope works in a block. It is made of hard wood or a metal. When made of wood, it is sometimes bushed, that is, has a piece or perforated brass let into its center, the better to sustain the friction of the pin.

SHEAVE

,
Verb.
T.
To bring together; to collect. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

sheave

sheave

English

Pulley block including sheave.

Noun

sheave ‎(plural sheaves)

  1. 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.
Translations

Etymology 2

See sheaf.

Verb

sheave ‎(third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)

  1. To gather and bind into a sheaf.
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 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.

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Etymology

Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa ‎(“slice”). For more see shive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

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