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

The wheel of a pulley is called a sheave, and by habit it has grown to be a common expression to call the block and wheel in hoisting works "the sheaves."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

It should have come itself, but the sheave the trolley runs on must have jammed, or they haven't pulled all the kinks and snarls out of the rope.

From A Damaged Reputation by Bindloss, Harold

The part which embraces the sheave is called the eccentric strap, and corresponds to, and is, in fact, a connecting rod end: the rod proceeding from this is called the eccentric rod.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

In the eccentric what corresponds to the crank-pin is called the sheave or pulley.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

Overhead the tramp of feet was to be heard, followed by the whine of a rope running through a sheave.

From A Cabinet Secret by Boothby, Guy Newell

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Kipling, Rudyard

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 Henley, William Ernest

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 Smiles, Samuel

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 Bridges, Robert Seymour