shive

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There's owd lasses nowadays, gie 'em a sup o' chatter-watter an' a butter-shive, an' they'll tell you tales that would fotch t' devil out o' his den to hark tul 'em After this attack upon the licence of the tea-table, Owd Dont needed a long draught of March ale to regain his composure.

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  1. A thin piece cut off; a slice: as, a shive of bread. [Old and prov. Eng.] Easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know. Shak., Tit. And., ii. 1. 86. This sort of meat … is often eaten in the beer shops with thick shives of bread. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 255.
  2. A splinter: same as shiver, 2.
  3. A cork stopper large in diameter in proportion to its length, as the flat cork of a jar or wide-mouthed bottle.
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  • When we think of Moon principle at individual level, the three characteristics viz, being born in ocean of milk, having rabbit patch and beautifying the crown of Shiva all appear related to central nerous system, The mind is born from the well spread out white nerous system (ocean of milk) with gray matter (rabbit like dark patch) and the mind when clean really beautifies the crown of shive or Self in the individual. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • There's owd lasses nowadays, gie 'em a sup o' chatter-watter an' a butter-shive, an' they'll tell you tales that would fotch t' devil out o' his den to hark tul 'em After this attack upon the licence of the tea-table, Owd Dont needed a long draught of March ale to regain his composure. —  More Tales of the Ridings
  • "Then a shive of bread and tryacle?" —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
  • Then lifting an huge shive that lay beside —  The Odyssey of Homer
  • "Pray you, give me leave to help you to another shive of the beef. —  For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary
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  1. from Middle English schive, schife, prob. from Anglo-Saxon * scīfe, * scīf (not recorded) = Middle Dutch * schijve, Dutch schijf, a round plate, disk, quoit, counter (in games), etc., = Middle Low German schīve, Low German schive = Old High German scība, scīpa, a round plate, ball, wheel, Middle High German schībe, German scheibe, a round plate, roll, disk, pane of glass, = Icelandic skīfa, a slice, = Swedish skifva = Danish skive, a slice, disk, dial. sheave; perhaps akin to Greek σκοῑπος, a potters' wheel, σκίπων, a staff, Latin scipio (n -), a staff. The evidence seems to indicate two different words merged under this one form, one of them being also the source of shiver, q. v. Cf. sheave, a doublet of shive.
 

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