sheave

English

Pulley block including sheave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

Etymology 1

Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”). For more see shive.

Noun

sheave (plural sheaves)

  1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
  2. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
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Etymology 2

See sheaf.

Verb

sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)

  1. To gather and bind into a sheaf.
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
      From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
      Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
      Their country's harvest.

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