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sheave

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sheave 1  (shv)
tr.v. sheaved, sheav·ing, sheaves
To collect and bind into a sheaf.
[From sheaf.]
sheave 2  (shv, shv)
n.
A wheel or disk with a grooved rim, especially one used as a pulley.
[Middle English sheve; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
sheave1
vb
(tr) to gather or bind into sheaves
sheave2
n
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a wheel with a grooved rim, esp one used as a pulley
[of Germanic origin; compare Old High German scība disc]


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One end of the long structure was full of corn; the middle was where the reed-drawing was carried on, and there had already been placed in the reed-press the evening before as many sheaves of wheat as would be sufficient for the women to draw from during the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
All through the wheat season, she told us, Ambrosch hired his sister out like a man, and she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the threshers.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
And therein they saw, placed apart, an hundred and forty stout yew bows of cunning make, with fine waxen silk strings; and an hundred and forty sheaves of arrows.
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