Noun: shive
| Singular | shive |
| Plural | shives |
Sample Sentences
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Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue [c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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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. [1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:]
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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. [2011, John Alexander, A Guide to Craft Brewing:]
Nouns inflected like shive
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
schyve', Old English Nouns '
*sċīfe', German Nouns '
Scheibe', Old Norse Nouns '
skífa', Danish Nouns '
skive', Dutch Nouns '
schijf'.
Verbs referencing "shive"
German Nouns
Scheibe, Dutch Nouns
scheef, Dutch Nouns
schijf.