shive

noun

1. A slice, especially of bread.

   “Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue”

   “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.”

2. (obsolete)A sheave.
3. A beam or plank of split wood.
4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

   “If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.”

5. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
6. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
7. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
8. A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
9. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of shiv.

   “So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.”

10. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of shiva.

    “There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.”

name

1. A surname.