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Word: Shive
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
Middle English: related to sheave. The original sense was ‘slice (of bread’), later ‘piece of split wood’; the current sense dates from the mid 19th century
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ʃʌɪv
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a broad bung hammered into a hole in the top of a cask when the cask has been filled.
Short Definition:broad bung hammered into hole in top of cask
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