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

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Example Sentences

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sheave sheaved

The sheave is generally made of cast iron.

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

The centre of the eccentric sheave or wheel is placed ahead of and level with the paddle shaft axis.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The pin, or axle, on which the sheave turns.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The "eccentricity" or "throw" of an eccentric is the distance between C2, the centre of the shaft, and C1, the centre of the sheave.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

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

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

Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

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