Sheave
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
Akin to German , late Old Norse . For more see shive.
Noun
- 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.
Quotations
- 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.