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sheave

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6 lettersPronunciation /ʃiːv/Sorted aeehsvStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A grooved wheel in a pulley block.

Word origin

From Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.

Used in a sentence

  • From him did forty million serfs (...) receive Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave Their country's harvest.

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