shide
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
From Middle English shide, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English scīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”). Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”), Swedish skid (“wooden shoe, sole, skate”), Icelandic skíð (“a billet of wood”). Doublet of ski.
Pronunciation
Noun
shide (plural shides)
- (obsolete) A thin board; a billet of wood; splinter.
- (obsolete) A piece of wood; strip; piece split off; plank.
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shide
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