sheave

Pulley block including sheave.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃiːv/

Etymology 1

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

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

wheel having a groove

• Dutch: katrolschijf (nl) c
• French: réa (fr) m
• German: Scheibe (de) f

• Korean: 도르래 바퀴 (doreurae bakwi)
• Russian: ролик (ru) (rólik) m, шкив (ru) (škiv) m
• Spanish: roldana (es) f

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.

See also

• pulley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:pulley

Anagrams

• heaves