shive
A slice, especially of bread.
In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
(obsolete) A sheave.
A beam or plank of split wood.
A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
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.
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