Sheave

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃiːv/
• Rhymes: -iːv

Akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa ("slice"). For more see shive.

Full definition of sheave

Noun

1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.

See sheaf.

Verb

1. to gather and bind into a sheaf
• , Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4''From him did forty million serfs (...) receive''Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave''Their country's harvest.

Anagrams

• heaves