Definitions
a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
Word origin
Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)”
“The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.”
“Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Leveling sliver”4 letters
02“Thin leveling wedge”4 letters
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