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Meaning of shive
noun
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A sheave.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
noun
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
noun
- A knife, especially a makeshift one fashioned from something not normally used as a weapon (like a plastic spoon or a toothbrush).
- A particular woody by-product of processing flax or hemp.
noun
- A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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