shive

See also: Shive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃʌɪv/

Etymology 1

A parallel form of sheave, from a Proto-Germanic base which probably existed in Old English (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. A slice, especially of bread.
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A sheave.
3. A beam or plank of split wood.
4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

slice

• Dutch: schijf (nl) c, snee (nl) f, snede (nl) f

obsolete: sheave

beam or plank of split wood

flat, wide cork

Etymology 2

From a Proto-Germanic base which probably existed in Old English (though is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Schebe, Dutch scheef.

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. (obsolete) A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
2. (papermaking) A particle of impurity in finished paper.

Translations

obsolete: splinter

• Dutch: splinter (nl) m, pluisje (nl) n

particle of impurity

Etymology 3

Variant of shiv.

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. Alternative form of shiv
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 50:

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

Etymology 4

See shiva

Noun

shive

1. Alternative spelling of shiva
   • 2010, William Labov, A Life of Learning

     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.

Derived terms

• sit shive

Translations

shiva — see shiva

Anagrams

• hives