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shive

Pronunciation: /ʃʌɪv/

Definition of shive

noun

  • a broad bung hammered into a hole in the top of a cask when the cask has been filled.

Origin:

Middle English: related to sheave2. The original sense was 'slice (of bread'), later 'piece of split wood'; the current sense dates from the mid 19th century

shive in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of shive in the US English dictionary