sheave

¹ American  

[sheev] / ʃiv /

verb (used with object)

sheaved, sheaving

1. to gather, collect, or bind into a sheaf or sheaves.

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sheave ² American  

[shiv, sheev] / ʃɪv, ʃiv /

noun

1. a pulley for hoisting or hauling, having a grooved rim for retaining a wire rope.

2. a wheel with a grooved rim, for transmitting force to a cable or belt.

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sheave ¹ British  

/ ʃiːv /

verb

1. (tr) to gather or bind into sheaves

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sheave ² British  

/ ʃiːv /

noun

1. a wheel with a grooved rim, esp one used as a pulley

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Etymology

Origin of sheave¹

First recorded in 1570–80; derivative of sheaf

Origin of sheave²

1300–50; Middle English schive; akin to Dutch schijf sheave, German Scheibe disk

Example Sentences

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sheave sheaved

Weight of transmission rope = .34 X dia.2 Breaking strength = 7,000 X dia.2 Maximum allowable tension = 200 X dia.2 Dia. smallest practicable sheave.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine

Water, admitted to a horizontal cylinder, displaced a piston and rod to which a sheave was attached.

From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel

Then the length of the corrected base-line is multiplied by the height of the mast, taken from the deck to the sheave on the topmast, and the result is divided by two.

From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Beyond was the massive sheave block; the cables ran dizzily down to the concrete drilling floor so far below.

From Two Thousand Miles Below by Charles Willard Diffin

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the high Autumn flames afield, And what is all his golden yield To that we took, and sheaved, and bound In the green dusk that gladdened round?

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

The sheaved blocks used for the running rigging consisted of the shell, the sheaves, which revolved within the shell, and the pins which fastened them together.

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

Or like a juicy and jostling shock    Of bluebells sheaved in May Or wind-long fleeces on the flock    A day off shearing day.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges

Mingled arrows each one sheaved; Death's dread armoury was stored With the shafts he most abhorred; Love's light quiver groaned beneath Venom-headed darts of Death.

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling