sheave

See also: sheaf

English

Pulley block including sheave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːv

Etymology 1

Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.

Noun

sheave (plural sheaves)

1. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
   • 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:

     To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.

2. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.

Translations

wheel having a groove

• Bulgarian: ролка с канал f (rolka s kanal)
• Dutch: katrolschijf c
• French: réa (fr) m
• German: Scheibe (de) f, Laufrolle f, Seilscheibe f, Umlenkrolle (de) f, Rolle (de) f
• Irish: síobh m
• Korean: 도르래 바퀴 (doreurae bakwi)
• Portuguese: roldana (pt) f
• Russian: ро́лик (ru) m (rólik), шкив (ru) m (škiv)
• Spanish: roldana (es) f

Etymology 2

See sheaf.

Verb

sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)

1. To gather and bind into a sheaf.
   • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 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.

Translations

to bind into a bundle

• Bulgarian: събирам на снопи (sǎbiram na snopi)
• Catalan: feixar (ca)
• German: bündeln (de)
• Hungarian: báláz (hu), kévéz (hu), kötegel (hu)
• Maori: herepū (of wheat, barley, oats etc.)

See also

• pulley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “sheave”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• heaves, heveas, shavee